1

£• * ** vS&fa- % <& ^

^

.vs

/4? ++ \WV f \ ^

*b V - fc Jiri

tfco4*

<£ r* * o • • ^ **^->

THE

BOOK OF PRAISE;

OR,

US****

FOR PUBLIC AND SOCIAL WORSHIP.

PREPARED UNDER THF BAVOfflOH LA) 4UTHOUYT, AND^W-BBHALr OF
TUE QENERA1 ASSOCIATION Of CuN.NH.IKTT.

HARTFORD:
HAMERSLEY A CO.

PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1869.

V

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

W. T. Eustis, Jr., Edwin P. Parker, M. M. G. Dana, H. N. Dunnin
and L. L. Paine,

For the General Association of Connecticut,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Con-
necticut.

STEREOTYPED BY

MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN,

PHILADELPHIA.

LliRAftV

PREFACE

TO THE HYMN AND TUNE BOOK.

The General Association of Connecticut, constrained
by a demand from many quarters for ■ moi
tory book of praise, pawnd ■ resolution Distracting and
authorizing a committee of five pastors — namely, \V. T.
Eustis, Jr., E. P. Parker, II M. O. Dana. H. X. Dun-
ning, and L L Paine -to pn p ire and publish, in their
behalf, a new Hymn and Tune Book.

Thus instructed and authorised, the Goinmittei

rm tin- work .

into their hands, striving to fulfil both the letter and
the spirit of the not in

their own wisdom merely, but relying on to
of the Spirit of all wisdom and

iggestioni and assistance 01 many of their brethren

in the churches.

This "Bookoi they now offer to the ( General

Lation of Connecticut, and to all the chnn h

Christ in the land, BS the fruit of tie ir long and
arduous lab

In the selection of hymns from rari
the delicate work of deciding between different read-

of wall-known hymns, and in tie n of a

plan of arrangement, they have n< -1 without

the most careni] research and deliberation.

The division of the bo il distinct

tions, each of which i- prefii mmmary

ment of its oont ther with the ii ections

which laces the first page of hymns, will, it i- believed,
greatly assist the readers in h icoming Bpeedily familiar

with the entire book, and also in readily finfling hymns

Buited to anv riven topic.

Here and there a hymn may be found which -
to be arbitrarily Located. While a few such instances
were unavoidable under the present plan of arrange-
ment, they are quite unimportant as compared with it.s
many and decided advantages.

3

4 Preface.

In the selection of hymns, the chief aim has been to
make the book, what its name imports, a Book of
Praise. Hymns that throb with a warm spiritual life,
— devotional rather than didactic, — that bear the soul
upward toward God and Christ and heaven, " on devo-
tion's lofty wing," and in which, as in the Psalms of
David, the worshipping spirit delights to pour out and
offer up the sacrifices of praise, have been chiefly sought.
Watts and Charles Wesley are the principal contri-
butors to this collection. While there are very few
new hymns in this book (and these, for the most part,
from the pen that wrote "My faith looks up to thee"),
there are not a few of rare merit and beauty, which
have never been published in any similar collection.

With respect to the " alterations" of hymns, suffice it
to say that ^he hymns in this book have been faith-
fully compared with their original forms, so far as
such comparisons were possible ; and the original read-
ings have been faithfully adhered to, except where
hymns have been manifestly improved by alterations
which usage has sanctioned. That this rule of criti-
cism is indefinite, and leaves the door still open to
errors and abuses, the editors are well aware. If in the
application of the rule their judgments have been some-
times in fault, it will be to them less a matter of wonder
than of regret. For some unusually sensible remarks
upon this whole subject of hymn-mending, the reader
is commended to a most delightful book by the Rev.
S. W. Christophers (London : S. W. Partridge. New
York : A. D. F. Randolph), entitled, " Hymn- Writers
and their Hymns."

With regard to the music of this collection, the editors
have endeavored to select tunes which would render
congregational singing practicable, profitable, and plea-
sant,— avoiding the extremes of commonplace music on
the one hand, and of too difficult music on the other.

To Dr. Ray Palmer, for permission to use many of
his valuable hymns, and for his kindness in contri-
buting several new and beautiful compositions for this
work, thanks are most cordially rendered.

Many o^the tunes in this book are the property of
American authors or publishers, and are herein used
by their permission. Among those from whom, by
special arrangement, valuable tunes and hymns have
been obtained, may be named Messrs. Barnes & Burr,
Messrs. Mason Bros., Mr. John Wiley, Mr. S. T. Gor-
don, Dr. Thomas Hastings, Mr. Asa Hull, Mr. George
Kingsley, Mr. George F. Root, and Oliver Ditson & Co.

Preface, 5

To those who have contributed either hymns or
music to these pages, and to all who, in any way, have
assisted in the preparation of this work, — and more
particularly to Rev. T. J. Holmes, Mr. E. P. H. Thomp-
son, and Dudley Buck, organist of the Park Church in
Hartford, — the editors tender their grateful acknow-
ledgments.

The rest of the Committee would express their own
obligation to the Rev. E. P. Parker for the indefatigable
zeal and energy which he has exhibited in the pre-
paration and publication of this ki Book of Praise/'
To him the churches are chiefly indebted fur the com-
pleteness of this new aid to devotion.

The editors would present their completed task to
the General Association of Connecticut, and to the
churches of our common faith throughout the land, in
the hope and prayer that it may prove a meal
spiritual peace and comfort to many bOoIb, a UM-ful and
profitable manual of devotion in the services of the
sanctuary, and so an acceptable offering unto the
Lord.

\Y. T. EU8TI8, -Ik..

j;i >\\ IN P. PARKER

M. M. Q. DANA.

II. N. DINNING,

L. L PAINS.
Hartford, April, 1868.

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

In conformity with wishes frequently ex-
pressed, an edition of the Hymns is here-
with presented without the tunes alluded
to in the Preface to the Hymn and Tune
Book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Section I. Page 0.

SELECTIONS FOB I BANTING QB READING,
FBOlf THE PSALMS, THE PBOPH1
AND THE m:w TESTAMENT.

Al><>, tki "Gh I •■ 7'- Da m La*do-

, and

Section II. : 71.

PUBLIC WORSHIP.

The I CUmng of

Worship.

III. | 117.

HOLT SCRIPTUB] -

Section IV. Paoi 189.

GOD THE FATHER, BON, AND HOLY
GHOST.

Birth, Passion, Resurrection, etc. of Christ.

8 Contents.

Section V. Page 211.

SALVATION BY CHRIST.

Depravity. — Regeneration. — Atonement, — Gospel Call. —
Repentance and Faith.

Section VI. Page 293.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

Hymns looking Godward. — Hymns looking unto Jesus. —
Songs in the Night. — Songs by the Way. — Graces and
Duties. — Prayer.

Section VII. Page 475.

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

The Foundation, Glory, and Edification of the Church. —
Lord's Supper. — Baptism. — The Ministry. — Ordina-
tion, Installation, Dedication Hymns. — The Spread of
the Gospel.

Section VIII. Page 537.

MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY.

Brevity of Life. — Death. — Resurrection. — Judgment. —
Eternity. — Heaven. — Funeral Hymns.

Section IX. • Page 593.

MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS.

New Year. — Fasts. — Thanksgivings. — Seamen. — Temper-
ance.— National Blessings.

INDEXES.

THE

BOOK OF PRAISE.

SECTION I.

SELECTIONS FOR CHANTING.

I Malt. <> : <>.

1 Our Father which art in heaven, hall

| be Ui>/ ii< une;
Thy kingdom <-<>m<\ thy will he done in |
f/i at it is in

2 Givcfufl this day our | daily bread;

And forgive us our debts a- u our

debtors.

3 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver

| us from t vtt;
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and
the J glory, fan w r, Ann n.

1 Oh, praise the Father, | praisi the Son,

The | Lamb for sinners given^

2 And Holy Ghoet, through whom alone

Our I souls arc raised to heaven.

1 Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,

And | to the Holy <i/i<>.<t:

2 As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever

shall be,

World | without end. Amen.

9

10 ''lts-

£ I'salin I.

man that walketh not in the

counse

| of the ungodly,

N : thin the way of sinners, nor sitteth

in the 0< at - of thi scornful.
2 Bui bifi i lighl is in the j law of the Lard;
And in his law doth he | meditate day and

;/if.

8 And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his |
firuii in his Si ason ;
His leaf also i hall not wither, and whatsoever
he | do - eih shall prospi
A The ungo lly | are not so :

lUii like the chaff which the | wind - driveth
an

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not j stand in the
judgrru nt}

r sinners in the congre | gatioiu of the

(> For the Lord knoweth the | way of the right-
eon* :
But the way of the un | god - ly shall perish.

0 Psalm 8.

1 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name

in | all the earth !
Who bast set thy j glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast

thou ordained strength be | cause of thine
' '" st
That thou mightest still the | ene - my and
tie avengi r.

S WTien 1 consider thy heavens, the | work of

The moon and the stars | which thou hast
Joined;

Chants. 1 1

4 What is man, that thou art | mindful of him f
And the son of man, | that thou visitest him f

5 For thou hast made him a little lower | than

the angels,
And hast crowned | him with glory and honor.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the

| works of thy hands :
Thou hast put all | things beneath his feet :

7 All | sheep and oxen,
Yea, and the | beasts of the field:
The fowl of the air, and the | fish of the sea,
And whatsoever passeth | through the paths

of the seas.

[9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth !]

Note. — Omit last verse in chanting, and close with
the " Gloria Patri."

4 Psalm 19.

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and

the firmament sheweth his | handy work.
Day unto day uttereth speech , and night unto
I night - sheiveth knowledge.

2 There is no speech nor language where their

| voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth,
and their | words to the end of the world.

3 The law of the Lord is perfect, con | verting

the soul:
The testimony of the Lord is sure, | making
wise the simple.

4 The statutes of the Lord are right, re |

joicing the heart :
The commandment of the Lord is pure, en |
lightening the eyes.

5 The fear of the Lord is clean, en | during

forever :
The judgments of the Lord are true and |
righteous altogether.

1 2 Chants.

6 More to be desired are they than gold, yea,

than | much fine gold;

Sweeter also than | honey and the honey -comb.

7 Moreover, by th m is thy | servant warned;
And in keeping of | them is great reward.

8 Who can under | stand his errors;
Cleanse thou | me from secret faults.

9 Keep back thy servant also from presump- j

tuous sins : let them not have do | minion
over me ;
Then shall I be upright, and I shall be inno-
cent | from the great transgression.

10 Let the words of my mouth, and the medi- !

tation | of my heart ,
Be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my |
strength and my redeemer.

0 Psalm 23.

1 The Lord is my Shepherd, I | shall not want
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures,

he leadeth me beside the | still - waters.

2 He restoreth my soul, he leadeth me in the

paths of righteousness for his | name's -
sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for
thou art with me, thy rod and thy | staff
they comfort me.

3 Thou preparest a table before me in the pre-

sence of mine enemies : thou anointest my
head with oil : my | cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life : and I will dwell
in the house of the | Lord forever. Amen.

0 Psalm 24.

1 The earth is the Lord's, and the I fulness

thereof;
The world, and | they that dwell therein.

Chants. 1 3

2 For he hath founded it up | on the seas,
And established | it upon the floods.

3 Who shall ascend into the | hill of the Lord?
And who shall stand | in his holy place ?

4 He that hath clean hands and | a pure heart ;
Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,

nor | sworn deceitfully.

5 He shall receive the blessing j from the Lord;
And righteousness from the | God of hi< saL

ration.

6 Lift up your heads, | 0 ye gaU
And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ; and

the King of glory shall eonu in.
Who is this | King of glory t
The Lord Btrong and mighty, the | Lord

mighty in battle.

8 Lift up your heads, | O ye gaJU
Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; and

the King of | glory shall conn in.

9 Who is this | King of glory/
The Lord of hosts, he | is the King of glory*

I rsnlni St.

Unto thee, 0 Lord, do I lift ?//> my soul;

Shew me thy ways, () Lord, teach wu thy

paths.

Lead me in thy truth and | teach -me;

For thou art the God of my >alvation ; on
thee do j / wait all the day.

3 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and

j loci ay bind
For they have been etH r of- old.

4 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor |

my tran$gr(
According to thy mercy remember thou me
for thy | goodness9 sake, O Lord.

14 Chants.

5 Good and upright | is the Lord :
Therefore will he teach | sinners in the way.

6 The meek will he | guide in judgment:
And the | meek will he teach his way.

7 All the paths of the Lord are | mercy an

truth

Unto such as keep his | covenant and his te%
timonies.

Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,
And | to the Holy Ghost :

As it was in the beginning, is now, and |

ever shall be,
World | without end. Amen.

0 Psalm 27.

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation

whom | shall I fear f
The Lord is the strength of my life, of |
whom shall I be afraid t

2 Though an host should encamp about me,

my heart | shall not fear ;
Though war should rise against me, in this
will | I be confident.

3 One thing have I desired | of the Lord;
That | will I seek after;

4 That I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life,
To behoM the beauty of the Lord, and | to
inquire in his temple.

5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me

in | his pavilion ;
In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide
me : he shall | set me on a rock.

6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above

mine enemies | round about me;
Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacri-
fices of joy ; I will sing, yea, I will sing
p raises to the Lord.

Chants. 15

5J From Psalm 34.

1 Oh, magnify the | Lord with me,
And let us ex | alt his name together.

2 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and

delivered me from | all my ft
The angel of the Lord encampeth round
about them that fear him, | and deliver eth
them.

3 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good J
Blessed is the | man who trusts in him.

4 Oh, fear the Lord, | ye his saints,

For there is do | want to them that fear him,

5 The young lions do lack and suffer hu
But they tha the Lord Bhall not j want

any good thing.

6 The Lord is nigh unto them thai arc <»i' a

brokt n In art,
And savetfa Buch as he | of a contrii

7 The righteous cry and the j Lord-l
And deli vereth them outofalltfu ir trov

ft The Lord redeemeth tin- j soul of his servants;
And none of them that trust in him shall be

1(J From Psalm 4ft.

1 As (lie hart panteth after

so panteth my bou! after I thee, 0 God;
Al v soul thirsteth lor God, for the living

God: when shall I come and ap

2 My tears have been my meal ! day and night,
While they continually say unto me, Where

is thy G

3 Why art thou vn. O my soul? and

why art thou disqui<
Hope thou in God! for 1 shall ye! praise
him for the | help -of his countenance.

1 6 Chants.

4 O my God, my soul is cast | down within me,
All thy waves and thy billows | are gone

over me,

5 Yet the Lord will command his loving-kind-

ness | in the day - timef
And in the night his song shall be with me,
and my prayer unto the | God - of my life.

6 Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and

why art thou disquiet | ed within me t
Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him
who is the health of my | countenance, and
my God.

11 Psalm 48.

1 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

in the city | of our God,
In the | mountain of his holiness.

2 Beautiful for | situation,

The joy of the w7hole | earth is Mount- Zion.

3 We have thought of thy loving | kindness, 0

God;
In the I midst - of thy temple.

4 According to thy name, O God, so is thy

praise unto the | ends of the earth ;
Thy right hand is | full of righteousness.

5 Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of

| Judah be glad
Be | cause - of thy judgments.

6 Walk about Zion, and go | round about her,
| Tell the towers thereof

7 Mark ye well her bulwarks, con | sider her

palaces,
That ye may tell it to the gene | ration folr
lowing.

8 For this God is our God for | ever and ever ;
He will be our guide | even unto death.

Chants, 1 7

Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,

And I to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever

shall be,
World I without end. Amen.

\L Psalm 46.

1 God is our | refuge and strength,
A very | present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear though the | earth
be removed,

And though the mountains be carried in | to
the midst of the sea.

Though the waters thereof | roar and be
troubled,

Though the mountains | shake with the swell-
ing thereof.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall
make glad the | diy of Ood,

The holy place of the tain-mad.- | of the
most- High.

God is in the midst of her: Bhe -hall | not be

moved ;
God shall I hrlp hn\ and that right rnrhj.
The heathen raged, the | kingdom* mere

n\oved :
He uttered his | voire, the earth - melted.
Come, behold the | works of the Lord ,•
What desolations he hath | mndr in oil the

< trth;
He maketh wars to cease unto the | tndi

the earth,
He breaketh the bow, and cuttoth the spear

in sunder; he burnetii the | chariot in the

fire.
Be still, and know that | I am QodI
I will be exalted among the heathen. I will

be ex I alted in the earth.
2

j 8 Chants.

10 The Lord of | hosts is with us ;
The God of | Jacob is oar refuge.

13 Psalm 36.

1 How excellent is thy loving | kindness, 0\

God!

Therefore the children of men put their trust
under the | shadow of thy wings,

2 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the]

fatness | of thy house;
And thou shalt make them drink of the
river of thy pleasure.

3 For with thee is the | fountain of life ;
In thy | light shall we see light.

4 Oh, continue thy loving-kindness unto | them

that know thee,
And thy righteousness to the | upright in
heart. Amen.

14 Psalm 51.

1 PI ave mercy upon me, O God, according

to thy | loving - kindness :
According unto the multitude of thy tender
mercies | blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me thoroughly from | mine iniquity,
And | cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge | my transgressions,
And my | sin is ever before me.

4 Hide thy face | from my sins,
And blot out | all mine iniquities.

5 Create in me a clean | heart, 0 God :
And renew a right | spirit within me.

6 Cast me not away | from thy presence,
And take not thy | Holy Spirit from me.

7 Restore unto me the joy of | thy salvation,
And uphold me | with \hy free- Spirit.

Chants. 19

8 Then will I teach trans | gressors thy ways,
And sinners shall be con | verted unto thee.

9 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God,

thou God of I my salvation ;
And my tongue shall sing aloud | of thy
righteousness.

10 O Lord, open | thou my lips;

And my mouth | shall thru: forth thy prai<e.

11 For thou desirest not sacrifice : else | would

I give it :
Thou delightest | not in burnt- offering.

12 The sacrifices of God are a | 6r< Irit;
A broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, |

thou Will not <l<~

Glory be to the Father, and j to

And I to the Holy Ghost;

A* it waa in the beginning, ta dow, and | 1

shall bey
World j without end. Anu u.

It) PnaIiii 02.

t Truly my soul waitet h | Ood :

From him | conu

I He only is my Rock, an I

He is my defence : I sha ..
moved.
\ My soul, wait thou only j upon Ood;

For my expec | lotion i im.

i Ho only is my Rook, and I my Bolvati

lie is my defence! | / shall n<>t l>>

> In God is my Balvation | <nn! my glory;
The rock of my Btrength, and 1;.

in G

> Trust in him at all times: ye people, |

out your | h art bef
God I is us.

20 . '//;.

in oppression, Mid I nol |

riches increase vri upon

i 1 bes thai power be |

' i >l.

!* AJso, onto tli- 1. !»«' ' longeth m

to I

10 P»alm I

>, thou art my I Jod : early j u
Uu

il tbirsteth for thee, my flesh lone
for thee in a dry and thirsty land | m

2 To we thy ad thy glory, so as I have

•I thee | in tin sanctuary.

B ai le thy loving-kindness is better than

8 Thus will I bless thee whil

I will lift uj> my | hands 'in thy nan

4 My -Mil shall be satisfied as with | mo

'Kltl f<lt/>

And my mouth shall | praise thee with jo

ise then hasl fo
>re in the shadow «»t' thy | wings will

J

and j to '

- 1 ■ //

As il was in ginning, is dow, and

thai
World end. A

Chants. 2 1

1 / Psalm 65.

1 Praise waiteth for thee, 0 | God in Zion;
And unto thee | shall the voiv be performed.

2 0 thou that hear est prayer, unto thee shall |

all flesh come;
As for our transgressions, thou shalt | purge
- them away.

3 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and

causest to approach unto thee, that he may
| dwell in thy courts :
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of
thy house, even | of thy holy temple.

4 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou

answer us, O God of | our salvation ;
Who art the confidence of all the ends of the
earth, and of them that are afar | off upon

the sea:

5 Which by his strength setteth fast the moun-

tains : being | girded with power ;
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise
of their waves, and the | tumult of thepeople.

6 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts

are afraid | at thy tokens :
Thou makest the outgoings of the morning
and | evening to rejoice.

7 Thou visitest the earth and waterest it : thou

greatly enrichest it with the river of God
which is | full of water :
Thou preparest them corn when thou hast |
so provided for it.

8 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly ;

thou settlest the | furrows thereof:
Thou makest it soft with showers; thou
blessest the | springing thereof.

18

!

8 L

I. •

id, and
u shall

L

6 1

7 ( . I shall j b '

And all the ends of the | earth eh -him.

Ic3 P*alui 7 1.

thy - unto the

pie wit! ous-

2 II shall come down like rain upon the |

rih,

all the ] /•/;'' ;< ;

4 He shall ! i from |

r un | to / the

\\ j'all <1 'un before him :

all Vim.

Chants. 23

6 His name shall be continued as | long as the

sun;

And men shall be blessed in him ; all |
nations shall call him blessed.

7 Blessed be the Lord God, the | God of Israel,
Who only | doeth ivondrous things.

8 And blessed be his glorious | name forever ;
And let the whole earth be filled with his |

glory. Amen.

From Psalm 77.

20

1 In the day of my trouble I | sought the Lord:
My soul refused | to be comforted.

2 Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? Hath

he in anger shut up his | tender mercies f
Is his mercy clean gone forever ? Doth his
promise | fail for evermore f

3 And I said, This is my in | firmity ;

I will remember the years of the right | hand
of the Most High.

4 Thy way, O God, is | in the sanctuary;
Who is so great a | God as our - God t

5 Thou art the God that | doest wonders:
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy

people, the | sons of Jacob and Joseph,

6 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the

great waters, and thy footsteps | are not
known;
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the |
hand of Moses and Aaron.

Li Psalm 80.

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that
leadest Joseph | like a flock,
Thou that dwellest between the | cherubims,
shine forth.

2 a Chants.

2 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy | face

to shine;
| And we shall be saved.

3 O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry

against the | prayer of thy people t
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears,
and givest them | tears to drink in great
measure.

4 Turn us again, O Lord of hosts, and cause

thy | face to shine ;

| And we shall be saved.

5 Return, we beseech thee, O | Lord of hosts;
Look down from heaven, and be | hold and

visit this vine ;

6 And the vineyard which thy right j hand

hath planted,
And the branch which thou | madest strong
for thyself.

7 So will we not go | bach from thee ;
Quicken us, and we will | call upon thy name.

8 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause

thy | face to shine ;

| And we shall be saved.

LL Psalm 84.

1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O | Lord

of hosts !
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the
courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh
crieth | out for the living God.

2 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and

the swallow a nest for herself, where she
may | lay her young ;
Even thine altars, O Lord of | hosts, my King
and my God.

3 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house :

they will be still | praising thee :

Chants.

25

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;
in whose | heart are the ways of them,

4 Who passing through the vale of tears, make

it a well ; the rain also | filleth the pools.

They go from strength to strength, every one

of them in Zion ap j peareth before God.

5 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer ; give

ear, O | God of Jacob ;
Behold, O God our Shield, and look upon
the I face of thine anointed.

6 For a day in thy courts is butter (ham a

thousand;
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of
my God than to dwell in the | lent* of
wicked 1 1'

UO From Ptu&lin H9.

1 God La greatly to be feared in tin- assembly

I of (he sai/its,
And to be had in reverence pf all j them thai
Wre about hi in.

2 O Lord God ot* hosts, who ia a strong Lord

like I unto t
Or to thy faithfulness | round about -th*

3 Thou hast a | mighty arm ;

Strong is thy hand, and | hi<jli U thy right
hand.

4 Justice and judgment are die habitation | of
thy thro

Mercy and truth shall go be/on (hyj

5 Blessed is the people that know the \jc
sou ml ;

They shall walk, 0 Lord, in the li(jht - of thy
coiuitenaiiee.

6 In thy name shall they rejoice | all the day;
And in thy righteousness | shall they bi

alted.

26 Chants,

24 Psalm 90.

1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in

| all generations;
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever thou hadst formed the earth and i
the world, even from everlasting to ever

| lasting thou art God.

2 Thou turnest man | to destruction,

And sayest, Re | him; ye children of men.

3 For a thousand years in thy sight are but

as yesterday | when it is past,
And | as a watch in the night

4 Thou carriest them away as with a flood ;

they are | as a sleep ;
In the morning they are like | grass which
groweth up.

5 In the morning it flourisheth, and | groiveth

up ;
In the evening it is cut | down and wither eth.

6 For we are consumed | by thine anger,
And by thy | wrath are we troubled.

7 Thou hast set our iniqui | ties before thee,
Our secret sins in the light | of thy counte-
nance.

8 For all our days are passed away | in thy

wrath ;
We spend our | years as a tale that is told.

9 The days of our years are threescore years

and ten : and if by reason of strength they
be fourscore years, yet is their strength |
labor and sorrow ;
For it is soon cut | off and we fly away.

10 Who know-eth the power | of thine anger f
Even according to thy | fear, so is thy wrath.

11 So teach us to number our days, that we

may apply our | hearts unto wisdom.
Return, O Lord, howr long ? and let it repent
thee con ] eern - ing thy servants.

Chants. 27

12 Oh, satisfy us early with thy merry ; that

we may rejoice and be glad
Make as glad according to the days thou
hast afflicted 11- a we have

seen evil.

13 Let thy work app -ar un | to t into,
And thy | (j!'>r"

14 And let the beauty <>t' the Lord our , God

be upon
And establi :' our ha

upon 11
iblish tho

LO Psnlm

1 Oh, come, let us Aws un to the Lord:

Lei VLB ni;i tO ill"'

I Let us < : with thank*

ng,

And make a joyful | twito Unto

o Por i!i>- Lord u
And a great Ki \g

4 In his hand are the di- p pli 1 rtli ;

The Btrength of tin- hilU u hii

5 The Bea ia his, ! and /

And Ins hand

6 ( Mi, come, let u

L 1 1 be | /'

7 Vov he ia I out

And we are . and the

I sheep - of I

8 Sc^ we thy people and Bheep of thy pasture

will give thee j then r ;

We will shew forth thy j prow to all gem

28 Chants.

IfO From Psalm 96.

1 Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the

people, give unto the Lord | glory and
strength ;
Give unto the Lord the glory | due unto his
name.

2 Oh, worship the Lord in the | beauty of holi-

ness ;
Fear be | fore him, all the earth.

3 Say among the heathen, | The Lord reigneth ;
He shall | judge the people righteously.

4 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the | earth be

glad ;
Let the sea | roar, and the fulness thereof.

5 Let the field be joyful, and all that | is

therein ;
Then shall all the trees of the wood re | joice
before the Lord.

6 For he cometh, for he cometh to | judge the

earth ;
With righteousness shall he judge the world,
and the | people with his truth.

L / Psalm 98.

1 Oh, sing unto the Lord a | new - song ;
For he hath | done - marvellous things.

2 With his own right hand and with his |

holy arm,
Hath he gotten him | self the victory.

3 The Lord declared | his salvation ;

His righteousness hath he openly shewed in

the | sight - of the heathen.

4 He hath remembered his mercy and truth

toward the | house of Israel ;
All the ends of the world have seen the sal |
vation of our God.

Chants. 2()

5 Show yourselves joyful unto the Lord, | all

ye lands;
Sing, re | joice, and give -thanks.

6 Praise the Lord up | on the harp ;

Sing to the harp with a | psalm of thanks-
giving,

7 With trumpets | also, and sh

Oh, show yourselves joyful be | /ore the
Lord, the King.

8 Let the sea make a noise, and all that |

then in
The round world, and they that dweUtheri in.

9 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the

hills be joyful together be j / I

For he | cometh tojudgettlu earth*

10 With righteousness shall he | judge the
world;
And the | people u Uk -

CAJ Psalm loo.

1 ( >h, be joyful in the Lord, \ all y<

Serve the Lord with gladness, and come
before his | | //;/.

2 Be that tin- Lord he is Ood ;

It is he that hath made US, and not we our-
selves; we are his people, and the sheep*

of his })<isfiir> .

3 Oh, go your way into hi- Lrat< - with thanks-

giving, and into his j courts with pi'"
Be thankful unto him, and | q d of

his name,

4 For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is

lasting ;

And his truth endureth from gene ration to

generation.

oq Chants,

Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,

And" | to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever

shall be,
World | without end. Amen.

29 Psalm 103.

1 Bless the Lord, | 0 my soul:

And all that is within me | bless his holy
name.

2 Bless the Lord, | 0 my soul:
And for | get not all his benefits.

3 Who forgiveth | all thy sin,
And healeth | all thine infirmities.

4 Who redeemeth thy life | from destruction;
And crowneth*thee with loving | kindness

and tender mercies.

5 The Lord is merciful and gracious ; slow to

anger, and | plenteous in mercy :
He will not always chide, nor keep his |
an - ger forever.

6 He hath not dealt with us | after our sins,
Nor rewarded us ac | cording to our iniqui-
ties.

7 For as the heaven is high a | bove the earth,
So great is his [ mercy toward them that fear

him.

8 As far as the east is | from the west,

So far hath he removed | our transgressions
from as.

9 Like as a father [ pitieth his children,
So the Lord | pitieth them that fear him.

10 For he | knoweth our frame ;

He remember I eth that we are dust.

11 Bless the Lord, ye his angels that ex | eel
in strength ;

Chants. 3 l

That do his commandments, hearkening
unto the | voice - of his word.

12 Bless the Lord, all | ye his hosts ;

Ye ministers of | his that do his pleasure.

13 Bless the Lord, all his works, in all places

of | his dominion ;
Bless the | Lord, 0 my soul.

14 Bless the Lord, | O my soul,

And all that is within me bless fus holy
name.

OU Psalm 115.

1 Not unto | us, O Lord,
Not unto us, but unto thy i

2 For thy mercy, and for thy truth*
Wherefore should th< heathen say, if

iS nOW their Qod t

3 0 Israel, trust I thou in tiu L

lie | is their help and th d.

4 () house of Aaron, trust ' thou i:, tfu Lord;
He | is their help and their shu

6 Ye thai fear the Lord, trust | in th I.
I te is their help and tin

G The Lord hath been mindful of as; | he
will bless us;
He will blesa the house of [srael; he will

I h/rss the house of .\oro,i.

7 He will bless them that fear the Lord, both

| small and </r< 'if.

The Lord shall increase you more and |
more, you and your < hildn n.

8 The heaven, even the heavens are the

Lord's ;
But the earth hath he given to the children
of men,

9 The dead praise | not the Lord,
Neither any that go j down - into

3 2 Chants.

10 But we will bless the Lord from this time

forth and for | evermore.
Praise the | Lord ! Praise ye the Lord !

31

Isaiah 52: 7-11.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the

feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that
| publisheth peace ;
That bringeth good tidings of good; that

publisheth salvation ; that saith unto |

Zion, Thy God reigneth !
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice, with

the voice together | shall they sing :
For they shall see eye to eye, when the |

Lord shall bring again Zion.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste

places | of Jerusalem;
For the Lord hath comforted his people, he

| hath redeemed Jerusalem.
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in

the eyes of | all the nations :
And all the ends of the earth shall see the

sal | vation of our God.

Psalm 121.

32

1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from

whence | cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made

| heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved : he

that keepeth thee | will not slumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall not

slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy shade

upon thy | right - hand.

Chants. 23

6 The sun shall not smite thee by da}-, nor

the | moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil :

he shall pre | serve thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and

thy coming in, from this time forth, and
even for | evermore.

OO Psalm 122.

1 I WA£ £lad when they said unto me, Let us

go into the | house of the Lord.

2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, | 0

Jerusalem]

3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is com

| pact toaethi

4 Whither the tribes go up, the | tribes of the

Lord,

5 Unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks

unto the | name of the Lord.
Cy For there are set thrones of judgment, the

thrones of the | hoUSt pf I > rid.

7 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they stall

| prosper thai love tin i .'

8 Peace he within thy walls, and prosperity

with | in thy palaa

9 For my brethren and oompanions1 sak. i, I

will now say, | P ; <rithin tkecj

10 Because ^i' the house of the Lord our (rod,
I will | sock thy goad*

j4 Psalm 120.

1 When the Lord turned again the captivity

of /ion, we were like j them thai dreamt

2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter,

and our | tongue with singing.

3 Then said they among the heathen. The

Lord hath done great | things for them !
3

34

Chants.

A The Lord hath done great things for us;
where | of we are glad.

6 Tarn again our captivity, O Lord, as the |
vuth.

6 They that sow in tears shall | reap in joy.

7 He thai goeth ibrth and weepeth, bearing |

pn cious set d,

8 Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,

bringing j his sheaves with him.

00 Psalm 130.

1 Out of the depths have I cried unto | thee,

O Lord.
Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be atten-
tive to the | voice of my supplications.

2 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O

Lord, | who shall stand f
But there is forgiveness with thee, | that thou
i nay est be feared.

3 I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and

in his | word do I hope;
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than |
they that watch for the morning.

4 Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the

Lord is mercy, and | plenteous redemption.
And he shall redeem Israel from | all his
iniquities.

OU From Psalm 132.

1 Abibe, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the

| ark of thy strength;
Let thy priests be clothed with righteous-
ness; and let thy | saints-shout for joy.

2 For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath de-

sired it for his | habitation.
This is my rest forever; here will I dwell;
for I / have desired it.

Chants. 35

3 I will abundantly bless her provision ; I will
satisfy her | poor with bread:
I will also clothe her priests with salvation;
and her saints shall | shout aloud for joy.

Q I Psalm 136.

1 Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is

good ; for his mercy en | dureth forever.
Oh, give thanks unto the God of gods; for
his I mercy endureth forever.

2 Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords; for

his mercy en | dureth forever.
To him who alone doeth great winders; for
his I mercy endureth forever.

3 To him that by wisdom made the heavens ;

for his mercy en | dureth forever.
To him that stretched out the earth above the
waters; for his | mercy endureth forever.

4 To him that made great lights ; for his mercy

en I dureth forever.
The sun to rule by day; the moon and stars
to rule by night; for his | mercy endureth
forever.

5 Who remembered us in our low estate; for

his mercy en | dureth forever.
And hath redeemed us from our enemies; for
his I mercy endureth forever,

6 Who giveth food to all flesh ; for his mercy

en I dureth forever.
Oh, give thanks unto the God of heaven;
for his I mercy endureth forever.

00 PsaJm 139.

1 O Lord, thou hast search - ed | me and

known me.
Thou knowest my down -sitting and mine
up -rising; thou understandest my | thought
afar - off.

^6 Chants.

2 Than eon my path and my | lying

And art ac | quainted with all my ways.

For there ifl not a word in my tongue, but
In, () Lord, thou knowest it | altogether:
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and

| laid thine ham! upon n\r.

3ocn knowledge is too wonder | fid for me;
It is high, I cannot at | taut -unto it.

.") Whither shall I go \ from thy spirit?

Or whither shall I \ flee- from thy presence*
t; If I ascend up into heaven, | thou art there!

If I make my bed in | hell, lo! thou art there.

7 If I take the wings of the morning, and

dwell in the uttermost | parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and |
thy right hand shall hold me:

8 If I say, Surely the darkness shall | cover

m e ;
Even the | night shall be light about me.

9 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, but

the night shineth | as the day :
The darkness and the light are | both alike
to thee.

10 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and

wonder | fully made;
Marvellous are thy works, and that my soul
| hnoweth right -well.

11 Search me, O God, and | know my heart;

Try me, and | know -my -thoughts:
VI And see if there be any wicked | way in me
And lead me in the | way -everlasting.

Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,

And | to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is nowT, and |

ever shall be,
"World I without end. Amen.

Chants. 37

39 Psalm 145 : 1-12.

1 I will extol thee, my God, 0 King; and I

will bless thy name for | ever and ever.
Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise
thy | name for ever and ever.

2 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ;

and his greatness | is unsearchable.
One generation shall praise thy works to an-
other, and shall de | dare thy mighty acts.

3 I will speak of the glorious honor of thy

majesty, and of thy | wondrous ivories;
And men shall speak of the might of thy
terrible acts; and | I will declare thy great-
ness;

4 They shall abundantly utter the memory of

thy great goodness, and sing of thy | right-
eousness.
The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion,
slow to anger | and of great -mercy.

5 The Lord is good to all; and his tender

mercies are over | all his works;
All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord; and
thy | saints shall bless -thee.

6 They shall speak of the glory of tby king-

dom, and talk | of thy power;
To make known to the sons of men his mighty
acts, and the glorious majesty | of his king-
dom.

41) Psalm 115: 13-21.

1 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and

thy dominion throughout | all generations.
The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth
| all that are boived down.

2 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou

givest them their meat | in due season;
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the
desire of | every living thing.

0 8 Chants.

3 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and

holy in | all his works;
The Lord is nigh unto all them that | call on
him in truth :

4 He will fulfil the desire of | them that fear

h im ;
He will hear their | cry and save them.

5 The Lord preserveth all | them that love him ; 1
But all the | wicked will he destroy.

6 My mouth shall speak the | praise of the

Lord;
And let all flesh bless his holy | name for \
ever and ever.

41 Psalm 146.

1 Praise ye the Lord ; praise the Lord, | 0 my j

souh

"While I | live will I praise the Lord,:

2 I will sing praises unto my God while | Lhave

being ;
Praise ye the Lord ; praise the | Lord - 0 my

soul.

3 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob |

for his help;
Whose hope is | in the Lord his God;

4 Which made heaven and earth and sea, and

all that | therein is;
Which keepeth | truth forev-er.

5 Which executeth judgment | for the oppressed;
Which giveth | food -to the hungry;

6 The Lord looseth the prisoners: the Lord

openeth the | eyes of the blind;
The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down;
the Lord | lov-eth the righteous.

7 The Lord preserveth the strangers; he re-

lie veth the fatherless | and the widow;
But the way of the wicked he | turneth up-
side down.

Chants. 39

The Lord shall reign forever, even thy God,

O Zion, to | all generations.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise the j Lord, 0 my

soul.

Psalm 147: 12-20.

42

1 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem ; praise thy

| God, 0 Zion.
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy
gates; he hath blessed thy | chll-dren with-
in thee.

2 He maketh peace in thy borders; and filleth

thee with the finest | of the wheal.
He sendeth forth his commandment; his
word | runneth very swiftly.

3 He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the

hoar | frost like ashes.
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who
can | stand before his cold/

4 Fie sendeth out his word, and | melteth them;
He causeth his wind to | blow, and tnetteth

them.

6 He sheweth his word | unto Jacob;

His statutes and his \ judgments anfo Israel,

() He hath not dealt so with any nation;

And as for his judgments, tiny have not

known them. | Praise - ye the Lord.

4vJ Ph»1iii 148.

1 Praise | ye the Lard:

Praise ye the Lord from the heavens; j praise
him In the heights.

2 Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him,

| all his hosts.
Praise ye him, sun and moon; praise him, ]
a// ye stars of light

40 Chants.

0 Praise him, ye heaven of heavens, and ye

waters that be a | bove the heavens.
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he
commanded, | and they ivere created.

4 He hath also established them for | ever and

ever ;
He hath made a de | cree which shall not pass.

5 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons,

| and all deeps:
Fire and hail; snow and vapor; stormy |
wind Jul filling his word:

6 Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, | and

all cedars;
Beasts and all cattle ; creeping | things, and
flying fowl:

7 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes,

and all judges | of the earth;
Both young men and maidens; | old - men
and children:

8 Let them praise the name of the Lord ; for

his name a | lone is excellent:
His glory is a | bove the heaven and earth.

44 Psalm 150.

1 Praise ye the Lord; praise God | in his

sanctuary;
Praise him in the | firmament of his power.

2 Praise him for his | mighty acts;

Praise him according to his | excellent -great-
ness.

3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet;
Praise him with the psaltery and harp.

4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance;
Praise him with stringed | instruments and

organs.

5 Praise him upon the | loud -cymbals;
Praise him upon the | high-sounding cymbals.

Chants. 41

6 Let every thing that hath breath | praise the
Lord.
Praise- | ye the Lord. Amen.

45 1 Claron. 29: 10-13.

1 Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel, for |

ever and ever.
Thine, O Lord, is the | greatness and the
power,

2 And the glory and the victory [ and the

majesty;
For all that is in the heaven and | in the
earth is thine.

3 Thine is the | kingdom, 0 Lord:

And thou art exalted as | head-over all;

4 Both riches and honor | come oj //<
And thou | reignest over all.

5 And in thine hand is | power and might;

And in thine hand it is to make great, and
to give I strength -unto all.

6 Now, therefore, our | God, we thank tin

And [ praise thy glorious name.

4b Isnlnli 12.

1 O Lord, I will praise thee, though thoo wast

I angry with me.

Thine Anger is turned away, and thou | com-
fort est - me.

2 Behold, God is | my salvation;

I will I trust and nut be afraid.

3 For the Lord Jehovah is my | strength and

song ;

He also is be | come -my salvation.

4 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out

of the I wells of salvation :
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the
Lord, J call upon his name.

±2 Chants.

5 Declare his doings among the people, make I

mention that his | name is exalted;
Sim: unto the Lord, for he hath done excel-

lent things ; this is | known in all the earth.

■v and shout, thou inhabi | tant of Zion;
at Is the Holy One of Israel | in the

midst of thee.
Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,
And | to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and

ever shall be,
World | without end. Amen.

47 Isais**i 26.

1 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose

mind is | stayed on thee;
Be | cause he trust eth in thee.

2 Trust ye in the | Lord forever ;
For in the Lord Jehovah is | everlasting

strength.

3 The way of the just is | uprightness;
Thou, most upright, dost | weigh the path of

the just.

4 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord,

have we ! waited for thee;
The desire of our soul is to thy name, and |
to the remembrance of thee.

5 With my whole soul have I desired thee | in

the night;
Yea, with my spirit within me, | I will seek
thee early:

6 For when thy judgments are | in the earth,
The inhabitants of the | ivorld will learn

-righteousness.

7 Lord, thou wilt ordain | peace for us,

For thou hast wrought | all our work* in us.

8 0 Lord our God, other lords beside thee

have had dominion | over us;

Chants. 43

But by thee only will we make | mention of
thy name,

4o Isaiah 35.

1 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be |

strong, fear not:
Behold your God will come with vengeance,
even God with a recompense, | He will
come and save you.

2 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,

and the ears of the deaf shall | be un-
stopped :
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart,
and the | tongue of the dumb shall ring*

3 For in the wilderness shall waters break

out, and j streams in the desert:
And an highway shall be there, and a way,
and it shall be | called thi

4 And the ransomed of the Lord .-hall return,

and come to Zion with Bongs and everlast-
ing joy up I on their heads;
They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sor-
row and I sighing shall flee away.

49 Isaiah 1<>.

1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, | saith

your (lo<l;
Speak ye comfortably | to Jerusalem.

2 And cry unto her that her warfare is accom-

plished, her iniqui | ty is pardon

For she hath received of the Lord's hand |
double for all her sins.

3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilder-

ness, Prepare the | may of the Lord;

Make straight in the desert a | highway for
our God.

4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every

mountain and hill shall I be made low;

44

Chants.

And the crooked shall be made straight, and
the | rough -places plain.

5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall | see it together;
For the mouth of the Lord, the mouth of
the | Lord hath spoken it.

6 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, | saith

your God;
Speak ye comfortably | to Jerusalem.

50 Isaiah 40.

1 The voice said, Cry; and he said, | What

shall I cry?
All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness
thereof is as the | flower - of the field :

2 The grass withereth, the | flower fadeth :
But the word of our | God shall stand for-

ever.

3 0 Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee

up into the | high - mountain :
O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings,
lift | up thy voice with strength;

4 Lift it up, be | not afraid!

Say unto the cities of I Jndah, behold your
God!

5 Behold the Lord will come with strong hand,

and his arm shall | rule for him;
Behold his reward is with him, | and his
icork before him.

6 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he

shall gather the [ lambs with his arm.
And carry them in his bosom, and shall

gently lead | those that are with young.
Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,
And | to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever

shall be;
World I without end. Amen.

}

Chants. 45

51 Isaiah 40.

1 The everlasting | God, the Lord,

The Creator of the ends of the earth, | fainteth
not, nor is weary.

2 He giveth | power to the faint; »
And to them that have no | might, he in-

creaseth strength.

3 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

and the young men shall | utterly fall;
But they that wait upon the | Lord shall
renew their strength ;

4 They shall mount | up with wings as eagles:
They shall run and not be weary ; they shall |

walk and not -faint.

OL Isaiah 41. 43. «£ 51.

1 Fear not, for | I am with /

Be not dismayed, for j I-am thy Gad.

2 I will strengthen thee: yea, | / will help

thee;
Yea, I will uphold thee with the right | hand
of my righU

3 Fear not, for I have re | deem-ed thee:

I have called thee by thy j ncme>-thoU art
mine :

4 When thou paesest through the waters, I |

will he with thee;

And through the rivers, they | shall not
overflow thee,

5 For a small moment have I for | sdken thee;
But with great meivies | will J gather ///

6 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee |

for a moment ;
But with everlasting kindness will I have
mercy on thee, saith the | Lord -thy Re-
deemer.

7 For the mountains shall depart, and the |

hills be removed;

4<>

Chants.

But my kindness shall | not depart from

8 Neither shall the covenant of my \ peace
Wi d;
Baith the | Lord that hath mercy on thee.
B ( I thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, not |
comfort
Behold, I will lav thy stones with fair colors,
and thy foun [ da-tions with sapphire*;
10 And 1 will make thy | windows of agate*,
And thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy |
borders of pleasant stones.

00 Isaiah 53.

1 He is despised and rejected of men ; a man

of sorrows, and ac | quainted with grief.
And we hid as it were our faces from him ;
he was despised, and we es | teemed him
not.

2 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and | car-

ried oar sorrows;
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten
of | God, and afflicted.

3 But he was wounded for our transgressions;

he was bruised for our in | iquities:
The chastisement of our peace was upon
him ; and by his | stripes we are healed.

4 All we like sheep have gone astray ; we

have turned every one to his | own -way;
And the 1 *ord hath laid on him the iniquity
is all.

5 He was oppressed, | and afflicted;
Yet he opened | not his mouth.

o' lf<- is brought as a | lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth | not his mouth.

7 He was taken from prison and from judg-
ment : and who shall declare his j gene-
ration?

Chants. 47

For he was cut off out of the land of the
living ; for the transgression of my people
I was he stricken.

8 And he made his grave with the wicked,

and with the | rich in his death;
Because he hath done no violence, neither
was any deceit | in his mouth.

9 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; yea,

he hath | put him to grief:
When thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall
pro I long his days.

10 And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper

I in his hands.
He shall see of the travail of his soul and
shall be | satisfied.

11 By his knowledge shall my righteous ser-

vant I justify many ;
For he shall bear their in | iquities:

12 Therefore will I divide him a portion | with

the great,
And he shall divide the | spoil with the
strong.

13 Because he hath poured out his | soul unto

death :

And he was numbered | with the trans-
gressors ;
L4 And he bare the | sin of many,

And made intercession for | the transgressors.

34 Isaiahi 60.

1 Arise, shine, for thy | light is come,

And the glory of the | Lord is risen upon
thee.

2 For behold the darkness shall | cover the

earth,
And I gross darkness the people.

48 Chants.

9 But the Lord shall a | rise upon thee;
And his dory I shall be seen upon thee;

4 And the Gentiles shall come | to thy light,

And kings to the | brightness of thy rising.

5 Violence shall no more be heard in thy

land; wasting and destruction with | in
thy bora'
But' thou shalt call thy walls salvation,
and thy ga tes - p ra ise.

6 The sun shall be no more thy | light by day,
Neither for brightness shall the j moon give

light unto thee.

7 But the Lord God shall be unto thee an

everlasting light, and thy | God thy glory;
Thy sun shall no more go down, neither i
shall thy | moon withdraw itself:

8 For the Lord shall be thine ever | lasting \

light,
And the days of thy | mourning shall be\
ended.

9 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul j

shall be joyful | in my God;
For he hath clothed me with the garments j
of salvation, he hath covered me with \
the I robe of righteousness :

10 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and I

as the garden causeth the things that are]
sown in it | to spring forth;
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and j
praise to spring | forth before all nations. ]

11 For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace,]

and for Jerusalem's sake I | will not rest,\
Until the righteousness thereof go forth asl
brightness, and her salvation | as a lamp\
that burnetii.

12 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteous-!

ness, and all | kings thy glory;
And thou shalt be called by a newT name]
which the | mouth of the Lord. shall name.]

Chants. 49

55 Lnkc 1: 68.

1 Blessed be the Lord | God of Israel;
For he hath visited | and redeemed his people.

2 And hath raised up a horn of sal | ration

for us;
In the | house of his servant David.

3 As he spake by the mouth of his | holy

prophets,
Which have been | since the world began;

4 That we should be saved | from our enemies;
And from the | hand of all that hate m.
Glory be to the Father, and | to the San,
And | to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever

shall be:
AVorld | without end. Amen.

5b Luke 1: 46.

1 My soul doth magni ! fy the Lord,

And my spirit hath re | joiced in God my
Saviour;

2 For he hath regarded the low estate of | his

handmaiden;
For behold, from henceforth all getier | at inns
shall call me blessed.

3 For he that is mighty hath done to | me great

things;
And | holy is his name.

4 And his mercy is on | them that far him,
From gener | ation to generation.

5 He hath shewed | strength with his arm ;
He hath scattered the proud in the imagi |

nation of their hearts.

6 He hath put down the mighty | froth their

seats ;
And exalted | them of low degree.

7 He hath filled the hungry | with good things;
And the rich he hath j sent empty an

4

ro Chants.

8 Ee hath holpen his servant Israel in remera- -
brance | of his mercy;

he spake to our lathers, to Abraham, and
| to his seed forever.

5/ Matt. 5 : 3.

J Bl£8B£D are the | poor in spirit;

For theirs is the | king-dom of heaven.
'2 Blessed are | they that mourn;

For they | snail be comforted.
8 1 -> lessee! | flW€ Me meek;

For | ft&ey *W/ inherit the earth.

4 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst

after | righteousness;
For | they -shall be filled.

5 Blessed are the | merciful;

For | they shall obtain- mercy.

6 Blessed are the | pure in heart;
For | they shall see- God.

7 Blessed are the \ peace -makers;

For they shall be called the | children of God.\

8 Blessed are they which are persecuted for |

righteousness9 sake;
For | theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,
And | to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever^

shall be;
World | without end. Amen.

00 Isaiah 55 A Matt. 11.

1 Seek ye the Lord while he | may be found;
Call ye upon him | while -he is near.

2 Let the wicked for- | sake his way,
And the tin- | righteous man his thoughts;

3 And let him return un- | to the Lord,
And he will have | mer-ey upon him:

Chants. 5 1

4 And | to our God,

For he will a- | bundantly - pardon.

1 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are |

heavy laden,
And | I will give you rest

2 Take my yoke upon you, and | learn of me;
For I am meek and | lowly in heart:

3 And ye shall find rest un - \ to your souls;
For my yoke is easy, and my | bur - den is

light

59 1 €or. 5 & Rom. 6.

1 Christ our passover is | sacrificed for us;
Therefore | let us keep the feast;
Not with the old leaven, neither with the

leaven of | malice and wickedness;
But with the unleavened bread of sin | eerily
and truth.

3 Christ being raised from the dead, | dieth no
more;

Death hath no more do | minion over him.

4 For in that he died, he died unto | sin- once;
But in that he liveth, he | liveth unto God.

5 Likewise reckon ye yourselves to be dead
indeed | unto sin;

But alive unto God through | Jesus Christ

our Lord.
Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,
And | to the Holy Ghost ;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever

shall be;
World | without end. Amen.

3U 1 Cor. 15.

I Now is Christ risen | from the dead,
And become the first - | fruits of them that
slept

j the
<l.

me shall | not

in th€ I

irruptible must put <>n |

l in u-t put on | i

le shall have pot on j

I thifl mortal shall have put on | im

shall 1>»- br >ught to
thai J lowed | uj> in

0 D Rth, i thy Bting ( I

. . ivetli us

01 S, Ircilons lor Haplism.

1 A i bildren, and

1 :
'-' V I eon

in | to ti

:■> •» | It,

Chants.

53

3 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself

as this | Utile child;

The same is greatest | in the kingdom of
heaven.

4 Take heed that ye despise not one of these |

little ones;
For I say unto you, that in heaven their
angels do always behold the face of my |
Pather which is in heaven.

62

1 And Jesus came, and spake | unto them,

saying,
All power is given unto | me in heaven and
in earth.

2 Go ye therefore and | teach all nations,
Baptizing them in the name of the Father,

and of the Son, and | of the Holy Ghost.

63

1 The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting

to everlasting upon | them that fear him;
And his righteousness | unto children's chil-
dren.

2 To such as | keep his covenant;

And to those that remember his com | mand-
ments to do them.

3 The promise is unto you, and | unto your chil-

dren;
And to all that are afar off, even as many as
the | Lord our God shall call.

4 He shall feed his flock | like a shepherd;
He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and

| carry them in his bosom.

Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,

And | to the Holy Ghost;

As it wTas in the beginning, is now, and j

ever shall be,
"World I without end. Amen.

54 Chants.

Dh The Allelulatlc Sequence.

1 The -train upraise of joy and praise, |

Alleluia!
To the glory of their King shall the ran-
mea people sing | Alleluia!

2 And tin' choirs that dwell on high shall re-

echo through the sky | Alleluia!
They through the fields of Paradise that
roam, the blessed ones, repeat through
that bright home, | Alleluia!
o The planets glittering on their | heavenly way,
The shining constellations join, and say, |
Alleluia I

4 Ye clouds that onward sweep, ye winds on

| pinions light ;
Ye thunders echoing loud and deep,
Ye lightnings wildly bright,
In sweet consent u j nite your Alleluia!

5 Ye floods and ocean billows, ye storms and

| winter snoiv ;
Ye days of cloudless beauty; hoar-frost and

summer glow ;
Ye groves that wave in spring, and glorious

forests sing | Alleluia !

6 First let the birds with painted plumage gay,
Exalt their great Creator's praise, and say |

Alleluia I

Then let the beasts of earth, with varying
.-train, join in creation's hymn, and cry

again | Alleluia!

7 Here let the mountains thunder forth sono-

rous | Alleluia!
There let the valleys sing in gentler chorus
| Alleluia !

S Thou jubilant abyss of ocean, cry | Alleluia!
J e tracts of earth, and continents, reply I
Alleluia!

Chants. 55

9 This is the strain, the eternal strain, the
Lord of | all things loves:
This is the song, the heavenly song, that |
Christ himself approves.

10 Wherefore we sing, both heart and voice

awaking, | Alleluia !
And children's voices echo, answer mak-
ing, | Alleluia!

11 Now from all men be outpoured, Alleluia |

to the Lord!
With Alleluia evermore, the Son and |
Spirit we adore !

12 Praise be done to the | Three in One !
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alle | luia! Amen!

UO Doxologies.

1 Worthy | is the Lamb,

The | Lamb that once was slain,

2 To receive power and riches and | wisdom and

strength
And honor and | glory and - blessing.

3 Blessing and honor and | glory and power
Be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and

unto the | Lamb, for ever and ever.

4 Unto him that | loved us,

And washed us from our | sins in his own
blood,

5 And hath made us kings and priests unto |
God and his Father;

To him be glory and dominion for ever and
| ever. A- men.

6 Behold he | cometh with clouds;
And j every eye shall see him.

7 And they | also that pierced him ;
And ail kindreds of the earth shall | wail

because of him.

!*

Chants.

Oy Requiem.

1 r>i.ixi:i) are the dead who | die in the Lord,
From hence- | forth; Yea, saith the Spirit;

2 For they | rest from their labors.
And their | works do follow them.

3 And God shall wipe away all | tears from j

their eyes :
And there shall | be - no more death,

4 Neither sorrow nor crying nor | any more ]

pain ;
Fur the former | things are passed away.

67 Litany.

1 0 Saviour of the world, the | Son, Lord i

Jesus,
Stir up thy strength and help us, we | hum-
bly beseech thee.

2 By thy cross and precious blood thou | had

redeemed us ;
Save us and help us, we | hum - bly beseech
thee.

3 Thou didst save thy disciples when | ready to

perish ;
Hear us and save us, we | hum- bly beseech
thee.

4 Let the pitifulness of | thy great mercy
Loose us from our sins, we | hum - bly beseech

thee.

5 Make it appear that thou art our Saviour

and j mighty Deliverer;
Oh, save us, that we may praise thee, we |
hum -bly beseech thee.

6 Draw near, according to thy promise, from

the j throne of thy glory;
Look down, and hear our crying, we | km-
bly beseech thee.

Chants. 57

7 Come again, and dwell with us, O | Lord,

Christ Jesus;
Abide with us forever, we | hum - bly beseech
thee.

8 And when thou shalt appear with | power

and glory ;
May we be made like unto thee | in thy glo-
rious kingdom.

Glory be to the Father, and | to the Son,
And I to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and | ever

shall be ;
World I without end. Amen.

00 Te Deum I.auclainiis.

1 We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge

thee to I be the Lord.
All the earth dotli worship thee, the | Father
everlasting.

2 To thee all angels cry aloud ; the heavens
and all the povn rs therein.

To thee cherubim and seraphim con- | tina-
ally do cry,

3 Holy, holy, holy Lord | God of Sabaoth ;
Heaven and earth are full of the | majesty of

thy glory.

i The glorious company of the apostles | pra/ite-

thee!
The goodly fellowship of the | praphetsprc
thee!

5 The noble army of martyrs | praise- th-
The holy church throughout all the world |
doth acknowledge thees

8 The Father, of an | infinite majesty:
Thine adorable, true, and only ^011 : also the
Holy I Ghost y the Comforter.

5 8 Chants.

art the King of | glory, 0 Christ;
Thou art the everlasting | Son-of the Father.
8 When thou tookest upon thee to de- |

man,

Thou didst humble thyself to be | born- of

a virgin.

D Winn thou hadst overcome the | sharpnesi

of cL '////,
Thou didst open the kingdom of | heaven to

all b< lit

10 Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the

ry | of the Father.
We believe that thou shalt | come to be our
Ige.

11 We therefore pray thee help thy servants

whom thou hast redeemed with thy \ pre-
j blood :

.Make them to be numbered with thy saints
in | glory everlasting.

12 0 Lord, save thy people, and | bless thine

heritage;
Govern them and | lift them up forever.

13 Day by day we I magnify thee;

And we worship thy name | ever world with-
out end.

14 Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day |

without sin.
0 Lord, have mercy upon us; have | mercy

upon U8.

15 0 Lord, let thy mercy be upon us, as our

trust | is in thee.

0 Lord, in thee have I trusted; let me |
m ver be confounded.

Oy Gloria in Excelsis.

1 Globy be to | God on high;

And on earth | peace, good-will towards men.

Chants. 59

2 We praise thee, we bless thee, we | worship

thee,
We glorify thee, we give thanks to | thee for
thy great glory.

3 O Lord God, | Heavenly King ;
God the I Father Al-mighty.

4 O Lord, the only begotten Son, | Jesus

Christ ;
O Lord God, Lamb of God, | Son of the
Father.

5 That takest away the | sins of the world,
Have I mercy upon us.

6 Thou that takest away the | sins of the

world,
Have I mercy upon us.

7 Thou that takest away the | sins of the

world,
Re- I ceive, receive our prayer.

8 Thou that sittest at the right hand of |

God the Father,
Have I mercy upon us.

9 For thou | only art holy;
Thou I only art the Lord.

10 Thou only, O Christ, with the | Holy Ghost,
Art most high in the | glory of God the
Father.

70

1 Holy, holy, holy, Lord | God Almighty/
Early in the morning shall our | song arise

to thee.

2 Holy, holy, holy! All the | saints adore thee,
Casting down their golden crowns a- | round

the glassy sea.

3 Cherubim and seraphim fall | down before

thee,
Who wast, and art, and | ever more shalt be.

6o ,,//y-

.1 n,,|v, holy, boly I Though the | darkneA

hide thi
Though the eye of sinful man thy j (/lory

thou art holy, there is | none inside

Perfect in power, in | lone and purity.

0 Holy, holy, holy, Lord | God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name, in |

h, and sky, and %

71

1 Tnor Maker of my vital frame, unveil thy

fact-, pro- I /i ounce thy name;
Shine to my Bight, and let the ear which

thou hast | formed, thy language hear:
Divide, ye clouds, and let me see the Power

that | gives me leave to be.

2 Where is thy residence? Oh, why dost thou

avoid my | searching eye/
Mysterious Being! Great unknown! say, do

the clouds conceal thy thronef
Or art thou all diffused abroad, through

boundless | space, a present Godf

3 Is there not some delightful art, to feel thy

presence | in my heart t
To lu-ar thy whispers, soft and kind, in holy

silence of the mind !
Tie my thoughts; no longer roam in

quest of | jon} for heaven's at home!

72

1 Prom the re less - of a lowly spirit
My humble prayer ascends, — O | Father,

h< ar U I
Borne on the trembling wings of fear and
meekne

For- | give its weakness.

Chants. 6 1

2 I know, I feel how mean, and how unworthy
The lowly sacrifice I | pour before thee:
What can I offer thee, O thou most holy,

But | sin and folly f

3 Lord, in thy sight, who every bosom viewest,
Cold in our warmest vows, and | vain our

truest;
Thoughts of a hurrying hour — our lips re-
peat them —

Our | hearts forget them.

i We see thy hand ; it leads us ; it supports
us;
We hear thy voice ; it | counsels, and it

courts us;
And then we turn away ! and still thy kind-
ness

For- | gives our blindness.

5 Who can resist thy gentle call, appealing
To every generous thought and | grateful

feeling t
Oh, wTho can hear the accents of thy mercy,
And | never love theef
8 Kind Benefactor ! plant within this bosom
The | seeds of holiness; and let them blossom
In fragrance, and in beauty bright and vernal,
And | spring eternal.
7 Then place them in those everlasting gardens,
Where angels walk, and | seraphs are the

ivai'dens ;
Where every flower, brought safe through
death's dark portal,

Be | comes immortal!

73

1 Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling
gloom, lead j thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from \Jwme;
lead thou me on !

Chants.

p thou inv feet ; I do Dot | ask to see
i distant ; one | step's enough fori

2 I wbb lmt ever thus, nor prayed that thou I
Bbonldst lead me on ;

I loved to choose and sec my path; but |
now, lead fit"" me on I

I loved tin4 garish day, and | spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: re- | member not pad
year< /

80 long thy power hath blessed me, sure it I

still will | lead me on
( >Vr moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, |

till the night is gone,

And with the morn those angel \ faces smile, I
Which I have loved long | since, and lost
a while.

74

1 " Thy will be done !" In devious way
The hurrying stream of | life may run;
Yet still our grateful hearts shall say,

"Thy will be done!"

2 u Thy will be doner If o'er us shine
A gladdening and a | prosperous sun ;
This prayer will make it more divine, —

"Thy will be doner

3 HThy will be done!" Though shrouded o'er
Our J path with gloom; one comfort, one

Is ours, — to breathe, while we adore, "Thy ]
will be done!"

"Thy will be done!"

75

1 My God, is any hour so sweet, from blush j
of I mnm till tv< ning star,
A< that which calls me to thy feet, — the |
hour of prayer — the hour of prayer?

Chants. 63

2 Then is ray strength by thee renewed, then

are my j sins by thee forgiven ;
Then thou dost cheer my solitude with |
hopes of heaven — with hopes of heaven,

3 No words can tell what sweet relief, there

for my | every want I find;
What strength for warfare, balm for grief,
wThat I peace of mind — what peace of mind.

4 Hushed is each doubt, gone every fear ; my

spirit I seems in heaven to stay ;
And ev'n the penitential tear is | wiped
away — is wiped away.

5 Lord ! till I reach that blissful shore, no

privi- I lege so dear shall be,
As thus my inmost soul to pour in | prayer
to thee — in prayer to thee.

76

1 When winds are raging o'er the upper

ocean,
And billows wild con- | tend with angry roar,
'Tis said, far down beneath the wild com-
motion,
That peaceful | stillness reigneth evermore.

2 Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth,
And silver waves chime | ever peacefully ;
And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it

flieth,
Disturbs the | Sabbath of that deeper sea.

3 So to the heart that knows thy love, O

Purest !
There is a temple, | sacred evermore,
And all the babble of life's angry voices
Dies in hushed | stillness, at its peaceful door.

4 Far, far awTay, the roar of passion dieth,
And loving thoughts rise | calm and peace-

fully,

/ nmatulments.

••m, lmw fierce §» Vr ii

lhai dux !&, 0 Lord% in

nal !

thy presence dwelleth
I " 1 1 1 1 1 • — indfon \h r.

THE TEH COMMANDMENTS.

I \ *i I III I OBD I II V GOD, WHICH H Wi:
A I OF THE i \M> OF EG1 I'l,
01 I OF i lii HOUSE OF BONDAGE.

1.

u >li:ilt have do other fore me

II.

Thou shall not make unto thee any graven
" any lik any thing that is in

heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath!
or thai lb in the water under the earth: thou
shall not bow down thyself to them, nor e

>r I the Lord thy ( tod am a jealous
the iniquity of the lathers upori

l, unto the third and fourth gene-
« of them that hate me; and §ho¥

J unt i thousands of them that love me,
commandments.

III.

Thou shall not take the name of the Lord
for the Lord will i
- th his name in i

The Ten Commandments. 65

IV.

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy :
six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work ;
but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant,
nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the
stranger that is within thy gates: for in six
days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is, and rested on the
seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it.

V.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy
days may be long in the land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee.

VI.

Thou shalt not kill.

VII.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII.

Thou shalt not steal.

IX.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against
:hy neighbor.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor
bis man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his
dx, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy
neighbor's.

5

,r this, Thou -halt imt commit adultery,
tli. .u >halt not kill, thou -halt net steal, thoii
, ;u- false witness, thou shall

anj other commandment,

. comprehended in this saying j

: -halt love thy neighbor a- thy]

: \r worketh no ill t" I bbon

love i- the fulfilling of the law."

THE APOSTLES1 CREED.

lieve in < tod, the Father Almighty, Maker

n and earth ; and in J< sue I Ihrist, his

Bon, our Lord, who waa conceived by the

Holy <ih<»M, born of the Virgin Mary, sufl

under Pontius Pilate, waa crucified, dead, ami

1. He descended into hell [Hades]; the

third «lay he ain from the dead, he as-

•■ d int«> heaven, and sitteth on the right

d, the Father Almighty: froni

thence hi* >hall come to judge the quick and

the dead,

lieve in the Holy ( rhost; the holy catholic

church; the communion of saints; the forgivej

the resurrection of the body, and

lift everlasting. Amen.

THE NICENE CREED.

I believe in one God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and of all th
visible and tavfeiUe:

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only be-

8on of I • >tten of his Father

i worlds; I tod of ( tod, Light of Light]

I I of very ( rod, begotten, not made,

with the Father; by

Whoa all things were made; who, for US men,
and for uur salvation, eame down from heaven,
and was incarnate by the Holy (i host of the

Lord's Prayer , and Benediction. 67

Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was cru-
cified for us under Po itius Pilate. He suffered
and was buried; and the third day he rose
again, according to the Scriptures ; and ascended
into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of
the Father. And he shall come again with
glory to judge both the quick and the dead;
whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord
and Giver of life, who proceedeth from the
Father and the Son; who, with the Father and
the Son, is worshipped and glorified ; who spake
by the prophets.

And I believe one Catholic and Apostolic
Church.

I acknowledge one baptism for the remission
of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the
dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

THE LORD'S PRAYER.

Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be
done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For
thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the
^lory forever. Amen.

THE APOSTOLIC BENEDICTION.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Grhost, be with you all. Amen.

(,8 Doxo/ogies.

DOXOLOGIES.

1 L. M.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host!
Braise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

2 L. M.

To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
Be honor, praise, and glory given,
By all on earth, and all in heaven!

3 L. M.

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

The God whom earth and heaven adore, j

Be glory as it was of old,

Is now, and shall be evermore!

4 C. M.

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

One God, whom we adore,
Be glory as it was, is now,

And shall be evermore!

5 C. M.

Let God the Father, and the Son,

And Spirit be adored,
Where there are works to make him known,

Or saints to love the Lord.

Doxologies. 69

CM.

The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord,
God's love in boundless store,

The Holy Spirit's fellowship,
Be with us evermore!

S. M.

The Father and the Son

And Spirit we adore ;
We praise, we bless, we worship thee,

Both now and evermore !

S. M.

To God, the Father, Son,

And Spirit, glory be,
As was, is now, and shall remain

Through all eternity.

S. M.

The grace of Christ our Lord,
God's love in boundless store,

The Holy Spirit's fellowship,
Be with us evermore!

7s.

Sing we to our God above
Praise eternal as his love ;
Praise him, all ye heavenly host,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

7s.

Praise the name of God most high;
Praise him, all below the sky;
Praise him, all ye heavenly host, —
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
As through countless ages past,
Evermore his praise shall last.

70 Doxologies.

8s & 7s.

12

13

Praise the God of our salvation,

Praise the Father's boundless love;
Praise the Lamb, our expiation ;

Praise the Spirit from above;
Praise the Fountain of salvation,

Him by whom our spirits live;
Undivided adoration

To the one Jehovah give!

6s & 4s.

To God, the Father, Son,
And Spirit, Three in One,

All praise be given !
Crown him in every song;
To him all hearts belong ;
Let all his praise prolong,

On earth, in heaven!

SECTION II.

PUBLIC WORSHIP.

(a.) The Lord's Bay and House.

(b.) Opening and Closing of Worship*

(c.) Morning and Evening Hymns.

"Praise the Lord in the sanctuary."

71

SECTION II.

PUBLIC WORSHIP.

The Sabbath. 7s A (*»•

ODAY of rest and d a dn ess,
O clay of joy and light,
O balm of care and sadn

Most beautiful, most bright!
On thee, the high and lowly,
Bending before the throne,
Sing, Holy, Holy, Holy,
To the Great Three in One!

2 On thee, at the creation,

The light Brat had itfl birth;
On thee, for our salvation,

Christ rose from depths of earth;
On thee, our Lord, victorious,

The Spirit sent from Heaven,
And thud on thee, most glorioOS,

A triple light was given,

3 To-day on weary nations

The heavenly manna falls;
To holy convocations

The silver trumpet calls,

Where gospel light is glowing
With pure and radiant beams,

And living water flowing

With soul-refreshiiiLr streams.

4 New graces ever gaining

From this our day of rest,
We reach the rest remaining
To spirits of the blest :

73

74 Public Worship.

To Holy Ghost be praises,
To Father and to Son ;

The Church her voice upraises
To thee, blest Three in One.

Psalm 92. • L,. M

tng,
sing

2

1 GWEET is the work, my God, my King,
£5 To praise thy name, give thanks, and sin]
To show thy love by morning light,
And talk of all thy truth at night.

2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest ;
No mortal care shall seize my breast ;
Oh, may my heart in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound !

3 My heart shall triumph in my Lord,
And bless his works, and bless his word ;
Thy works of grace, how bright they shine !
How deep thy counsels! how divine!

4 Lord, I shall share a glorious part,
When grace hath well refined my heart,
And fresh supplies of joy are shed,
Like holy oil to cheer my head.

5 Then shall I see and hear and know
All I desired or wished below,

And every power find sweet employ
In that eternal world of joy.

U Psalm 84. I*. M.

HOW pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet th' assemblies of thy saints.

2 My flesh would rest in thine abode ;
My panting heart cries out for God.
My God, my King, why should I be
So far from all my joys and thee !

Public Worship. 75

3 Blest are the souls that find a place
Within the temple of thy grace ;
There they behold thy gentler rays,
And seek thy face, and learn thy praise.

A 4 Blest are the men whose hearts are set
To find the way to Zion'a gate ;
God is their strength, and thro' the road
They lean upon their helper, God.

t 5 Cheerful they walk with growing strength,
Till all shall inert in heaven at length;
Till all before thy face appear,
And join in nobler worship there.

4 Joy In Worship. I,. WL

LORD, how delightful 'tis to
A whole assembly worship thee!
At once tiny Biug, at once they pray ;
Thev hear of heaven, and learn the way.

2 I have been there, and still would go;
Tis like a little heaven below :

Not all thai my

Shall tempt in- to forget thifl day.

8 Oh, write upon my memory, Lord,
The texts and doctrines of thy word!
That I may break thy laws no more,
Bui love thee better than b

4 With thoughts of Christ, and things divine,
Fill up this foolish heart of mi]

That, finding pardon through his Mood,
I may lie down, and wake with (> cL

5 L. tt.

npHINE earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love,
JL But there's a nobler res! above;

To that our longing souls aspire,
With cheerful hope and strung desire.

76 Public Worship.

2 No more fatigue, no more distress,

Nor sin nor death shall reach the place ;
No groans shall mingle with the songs
Which warble from immortal tongues.

3 No rude alarms of raging foes ;
No cares to break the long repose ;
No midnight shade, no clouded sun, —
But sacred, high, eternal noon !

4 O long-expected day, begin !

Dawn on these realms of woe and sin ;
Fain would we leave this weary road,
And sleep in death, to rest with God.

6 i*.m

FAR from my thoughts, vain world, begone !
Let my religious hours alone :
Fain would mine eyes my Saviour see :
I wait a visit, Lord, from thee.

2 My heart grows warm with holy fire,
And kindles with a pure desire :
Come, my dear Jesus ! from above,
And feed my soul with heavenly love.

3 Blest Saviour ! what delicious fare,
How sweet thine entertainments are!
Never did angels taste, above,
Redeeming grace and dying love.

4 Hail, great Immanuel, all-divine !
In thee thy Father's glories shine :
Thou brightest, sweetest, fairest One
That eyes have seen, or angels known !

/ Gen. 28 : 17. Ii. M.

HOW sweet to leave the world awhile,
And seek the presence of our Lord !
Dear Saviour ! on thy people smile,
And come, according to thy word.

Public Worship. 77

2 From busy scenes we now retreat,

That we may here converse with thee :
Ah ! Lord, behold us at thy feet ; —
Let this the "gate of heaven" be.

3 " Chief of ten thousand !" now appear,

That we by faith may see thy face :

Oh ! speak, that we thy voice may hear,

And let thy presence fill this place.

O Psalm 118. L. n.

LO ! what a glorious corner-stone
The Jewish builders did refiise ;
But God hath built his Church thereon,
In spite of envy and the Jews.

2 Great God! the work is all divine,

The joy and wonder of our eves;
This is the day that proves it thine,
The day that saw our Saviour rise.

3 Sinners, rejoice, and saints be glad';

Hosanna, let his name be blest ;
A thousand honors on his head,

With peace and light and glory 1

4 In God's own name he conies to bring

Salvation to our dying race:
Let the whole Church address their King
With hearts of joy, and songs of praise.

The Lord's Day. 7».

SAFELY through another week
God has brought us on our way ;
Let us now a blessing seek,

Waiting in his courts to-day;
Day of all the week the best,
Emblem of eternal rest.

78 Public Worship.

2 While we pray for pard'ning grace,

Through the dear Redeemer's name,
Show thy reconciling face;

Take away our sin and shame:
From our worldly cares set free,
May we rest this day in thee.

3 Here we come, thy name to praise ;

Let us feci thy presence near;
May thy glories meet our eyes,

While we in thy house appear :
Here afford us, Lord, a taste
Of our everlasting feast.

4 May the gospel's joyful sound

Conquer sinners, comfort saints ;
Make the fruits of grace abound ;

Bring relief for all complaints :
Thus let all our Sabbaths prove,
Till we rest in thee above.

lU Psalm 84. 7s.

PLEASANT are thy courts above,
In the land of light and love ;
Pleasant are thy courts below,
In this land of sin and woe.
Oh, my spirit longs and faints
For the converse of thy saints ;
For the brightness of thy face,
King of glory, King of grace !

2 Happy birds that sing and fly
Round thy altars, O Most High !
Happier souls that find a rest
In a heavenly Father's breast !
Happy souls ! their praises flow
Even in this world of woe ;
Waters in the desert rise,
Manna feeds them from the skies.

3 On they go from strength to strength,
Till they reach thy throne at length;

Opening of Worship. 79

At thy feet adoring fall,
Who hast led them safe through all.
Lord, be mine this prize to win !
Guide me through a world of sin,
Keep me by thy saving grace,
Give me, at thy side, a place !

11 Psalm 5. GJL

LORD, in the morning thou shalt hear
My voice ascending high ;
To thee will I direct my prayer,
To thee lift up mine eve : —

2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone,

To plead for all his saint-,
Presenting at his Father's throne
Our songs and our complaints.

3 Thou art a God before whose sight

The wicked shall not stand ;

Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight,

Nor dwfell at thy right hand.

4 But to thy house will 1 resort,

To taste thy mercief there ;
I will frequent thy holy court,

And worship in thy Tear.

5 Oh, may thy Spirit guide my fi

In ways of righteousness I
Make every path of duty straight

And plain before my face.

\L l»Kalm lis. <\ n.

THIS is the day the Lord hath made;
He calls the hours his own :
Let heaven rejoice, let earth be glad,
And praise surround the throne.

2 To-day he rose, and left the dead,
And Satan's empire fell ;
To-day the saints his triumph spread,
And all his wonders tell.

80 Public Worship.

3 Hosanna to th' anointed King,

To David's holy Son :
Help us, O Lord! descend, and bring
Salvation from thy throne.

4 Blest be the Lord who comes to men

With messages of grace;
Who comes, in God his Father's name,
To save our sinful race.

5 Hosanna in the highest strains

The Church on earth can raise ;
The highest heavens, in which he reigns,
Shall give him nobler praise.

13

Psalm 63. c. M,

T^ ARLY, my God ! without delay,
J-^ I haste to seek thy face ;
My thirsty spirit faints away,
Without thy cheering grace.

2 So pilgrims on the scorching sand,

Beneath a burning sky,
Long for a cooling stream at hand,
And they must drink or die.

3 I've seen thy glory and thy power

Through all thy temple shine ;
My God ! repeat that heavenly hour,
That vision so divine.

4 Not life itself, with all its joys,

Can my best passions move,
Or raise so high my cheerful voice,
As thy forgiving love.

5 Thus, till my last expiring day,

1 11 bless my God and King ;
lhus will I lift my hands to pray,
And tune my lips to sing.

The Lord's House. 8 1

/± Providence. C M.

WHILE thee I seek, protecting Power!
Be my vain wishes stilled;
And may this consecrated hour
With better hopes be filled!

2 Thy love the power of thought bestowed;

To thee my thoughts would soar ;
Thy mercy o'er my life has flowed ;
That mercy I adore.

3 In each event of life, how char

Thy ruling hand I -
Kadi blessing to my soul more dear,
Because conferred by th

4 In every joy that crown- my days,

In every pain I bear,

My heart shall find delight in prafa

I )r seek relief in prayer.

5 When gladness wings my favored hour,

Thy love my thoughts shall fill ;
Resigned, when .-tonus of sorrow Ion

My soul shall meet thy will.

6 My lifted eve, without a tear,

The gathering storm shall BOO J
My Steadfast heart shall know no fear;
That heart will rest on thee.

0 Psalm s i. i. yf.

MY soul, how lovely is the place,
To which thy God resorts!
Tis heaven to see his smiling fac
Though in his earthly court.-.

2 There the great Monarch of the skies
His saving power display- ;
And light breaks in upon our eyes,
With kind and quickening raw-.
6

82 Public I For ship.

3 With his rich gifts, the heavenly Dove \
I ), roendfl and fills the place;
While Christ reveals his wondrous love,
And Bhedfl abroad his grace.

A There, mighty God, thy words declare
The secrets of thy will ;

And -till ire seek thy merry there,
And sing thy praises still.

10 P*alni SI. H.

LORD of the worlds ahove,
How pleasant and how fair
The dwellings of thy love,

Thine earthly temples are!
To thine abode my heart aspires,
With warm desires (with warm desires)
To see my God.

2 The sparrow for her young

With pleasure seeks a nest ;
And wandering swallows long

To find their wonted rest:
My spirit faints with equal zeal,
To rise and dwell (to rise and dwell)

Among thy saints.

3 Oh, happy souls that pray

Where God appoints to hear;
( >h, happy men that pay

Their constant service there!
They praise thee still ; and happy they
That love the way (that love the way)

To Zion'fl hill I

4 They go from strength to strength,

Through this dark vale of tears,
Till each arrives at length,

Till each in heaven appears:
Oh, glorious -eat, when God our King
Shall thither bring shall thither bring)

Our willing feel I

17

The Lord's Day and House. 83

Tlie liOrd's Bay. H. M.

WELCOME, delightful morn,
Thou day of sacred rest !
I hail thy kind return ; —

Lord, make these moments blest :
From the low train of mortal toys,
I soar to reach (I soar to reach)
Immortal joys.

Now may the King descend

And fill his throne of grace ;
Thy sceptre, Lord, extend,

While saints address thy face :
Let sinners feel thy quickening word,
And learn to know (and learn to know)

And fear the Lord.

Descend, celestial Dove,

With all thy quickening powers ;
Disclose a Saviour's love,

And bless these sacred hours :
Then shall my soul new life obtain,
Nor Sabbaths be (nor Sabbaths be)

Enjoyed in vain.

[8

Psalm 122. S. P. M.

HOW pleased and blest was I
To hear the people cry,
" Come, let us seek our God to-day !"
Yes, with a cheerful zeal
We haste to Zion's hill,

And there our vows and honors pay.

Zion, thrice happy place,
Adorned with wondrous grace,

And walls of strength embrace thee round!
In thee our tribes appear
To pray and praise, and hear

The sacred gospel's joyful sound.

84 Public Worship.

3 May peace attend thy gate,
And joy within thee wait

To* bless the soul of every guest :
The man who seeks thy peace,
And wishes thine increase,

A thousand blessings on him rest !

4 My tongue repeats her vows,
" Peace to this sacred house !"

For here my friends and kindred dwell ;
And since my glorious God
Makes thee his blest abode,

My soul shall ever love thee well.

lC/ Gwl's Government. S. P. M

THE Lord Jehovah reigns,
And royal state maintains,
His head with awful glories crowned ;
Arrayed in robes of light,
Begirt writh sovereign might,
And rays of majesty around.

2 Upheld by thy commands,
The world securely stands,

And skies and stars obey thy word ;
Thy throne was fixed on high
Before the starry sky :

Eternal is thy kingdom, Lord !

3 Let floods and nations rage,
And all their powers engage ;

Let swelling tides assault the sky:
The terrors of thy frown
Shall beat their madness down :

Thy throne forever stands on high.

4 Thy promises are true;
Thy grace is ever new ;

There fixed, thy church shall ne'er remove
Thy saints, with holy fear,
Shall in thy courts appear,

And sing thine everlasting love.

The Lord's Day. 85

JO Psalm 122. €. P. TK.

THE festal morn, my God, is come,
That calls me to thy sacred dome,
Thy presence to adore :
My feet the summons shall attend,
With willing steps thy courts ascend,
And tread the hallowed floor.

2 With holy joy I hail the day
That warns my thirsting soul away

To dwell among the blest !
For, lo ! my great Redeemer's power
Unfolds the everlasting door,

And leads me to his rest !

3 Hither, from earth's remotest end,
Lo ! the redeemed of God ascend,

Their tribute hither bring:
Here, crowned with everlasting joy,

In hymns of praise their tongues employ,
And hail th' immortal King.

1 The GlorioiiH Works of Owl. C P. II .

THY mighty working, mighty Godl
Wakes ill 1 my powers ; 1 look abroad,

And can no longer rest ;
I, too, must sing when all things sing,
And from mv heart the praises ring

The Highest loveth best.

2 If thou, in thy great love to us,
Wilt scatter joy and beauty thus

O'er this poor earth of ours :
What nobler glories shall be given
Hereafter in thy shining heaven,

Set round with golden towers !

3 What thrilling joy, when on our sight
Christ's garden beams in cloudless light,

86

22

Public Worship.

Whore all the air is sweet ;
Still laden with th' unwearied hymn
From all the thousand seraphim

Who God's high praise repeat !

Oh, were I there ! oh that I now
Before thy throne, my God, could bow,

And bear my heavenly palm !
Then, like the angels, would I raise
My voice, and sing thine endless praise

In many a sweet-toned psalm.

The Sanctuary. S. M

HOW charming is the place
Where my Redeemer, God,
Unveils the beauties of his face,
And sheds his love abroad !

2 Not the fair palaces

To which the great resort,
Are once to be compared with this,
Where Jesus holds his court.

3 Here on the mercy-seat,

With radiant glory crowned,
Our joyful eyes behold him sit,
And smile on all around.

4 To him their prayers and cries

Each humble soul presents ;
He listens to their broken sighs,
And grants them all their wants.

5 Give me, O Lord, a place

Within thy bless'd abode,
Among the children of thy grace,
The servants of my God.

23

Psalm 92. S. M.

SWEET is the work, O Lord,
Thy glorious acts to sing,

The Lord's Day and House. 87

To praise thy name, and hear thy word,
And grateful offerings bring.

2 Sweet, at the dawning light,

Thy boundless love to tell ;
And when approach the shades of night,
Still on the theme to dwell.

3 Sweet, on this day of rest,

To join in heart and voice
With those who love and serve thee best,
And in thy name rejoice.

4 To songs of praise and joy
Be every Sabbath given,

That such may be our blest employ
Eternally in heaven.

Ht Call to Praise. S. M.

STAND up and bless the Lord,
Ye people of his choice;
Stand up and bless the Lord your God,
With heart and soul and voice.

2 Though high above all praise,

Above all blessing high,
Who would not fear his holy name,
And laud, and magnify?

3 Oh, for the living flame

From his own altar brought,
To touch our lips, our souls inspire,
And wing to heaven our thought!

4 God is our strength and song,

And his salvation ours:
Then be his love in Christ proclaimed,
With all our ransomed powers.

5 Stand up and bless the Lord ;

The Lord your God adore ;
Stand up and bless his glorious name,
Henceforth, for evermore.

88 Public Worship.

25 Psalm 118. S. IW

SEE what a living stone
The builders did refuse !
Yet God hath built his church thereon,
In spite of envious Jews.

2 The scribe and angry priest

Reject thine only Son ;
Yet on this rock shall Zion rest,
As the chief corner-stone.

3 The work, O Lord, is thine,

And wondrous in our eyes :
This day declares it all divine;
This day did Jesus rise.

4 This is the glorious day

That our Redeemer made :
Let us rejoice and sing and pray ;
Let all the church be glad.

5 Hosanna to the King,

Of David's royal blood !
Bless him, ye saints ! he comes to bring
Salvation from your God.

£U Psalm 48. S. M.

GREAT is the Lord our God,
And let his praise be great ;
He makes his churches his abode,
His most delightful seat.

2 These temples of his grace,

How beautiful they stand !

The honors of our native place,

And bulwarks of our land.

3 In Zion God is known

A refuge in distress ;
How bright has his salvation shone
Through all her palaces !

The Lord's Day and House. 89

4 Oft have our fathers told,

Our eyes have often seen,
How well our God secures the fold
Where his own sheep have been.

5 In every new distress

We'll to his house repair,
We'll think upon his wondrous grace,
And seek deliverance there.

i I Day of Rest. S. M.

WELCOME, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise,
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.

2 The King himself comes near,

And feasts his saints to-day:
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love and praise and pray.

3 One day, amid the place

Where God, my God, hath been,

Is sweeter than ten thousand dayi

Within the tents of sin.

4 My willing soul would stay

In such a frame as this,
And sit and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.

O Invocation. i\ .11.

AGAIN our earthly cares we leave,
And to thy courts repair;
Again with joyful feet we come,
To meet our Saviour here.

2 Great Shepherd of thy people, hear!
Thy presence now display ;
We bow within thy house of prayer;
Oh ! give us hearts to pray.

90 Public Worship.

3 The clouds which veil thee from our sight,

In pity, Lord, remove;
Dispose our minds to hear aright
The message of thy love.

4 The feeling heart, the melting eye,

The humble mind, bestow;
And shine upon us from on high,
To make our graces grow.

5 Show us some token of thy love,

Our fainting hopes to raise ;
And pour thy blessing from on high,
To aid our feeble praise.

9Q

£"J Psalm 65. CM.

TDRAISE waits in Zion, Lord, for thee,
J- There shall our vows be paid;
Thou hast an ear when sinners pray ;
All flesh shall seek thine aid.

2 Lord, our iniquities prevail,

But pardoning grace is thine;
And thou wilt grant us power and skill
To conquer every sin.

3 Blest are the men whom thou wilt choose

To bring them near thy face,
Give them a dwelling in thy house,
To feast upon thy grace.

4 In answering what thy church requests,

Thy truth and terror shine;
And works of dreadful righteousness
Fulfil thy kind design.

5 Thus shall the wondering nations see

The Lord is good and just;
And distant islands fly to thee,
And make thy name their trust.

Opening of Worship. 9 1

30 Psalm S4. C. 31.

HOW lovely are thy dwellings, Lord*
From noise and trouble free!
How beautiful the sweet accord
Of souls that pray to thee!

2 Lord God of hosts, that reign'st on high!

They are the truly blest,
Who only will on thee rely,
In thee alone will rest.

3 They pass refreshed the thirsty vale,
The dry and barren ground,

As through a fruitful, watery dale
Where springs and showers abound.

They journey on from Strength to Btre&gth,

With joy and gladsome ehei r,
Till all before our God at length

In /ion's court- appear.

31 Psalm st. I- llij

GREAT God, attend, while Hon mi
The joy that from thy presence spru
To spend one day with thee on earth,
Exce< da a thousand day- of mirth.

2 Might I enjoy the meanest pla
Within thy house, <> God of grace,
Not tent- >r thrones of power,
Should tempt my feet to leave thy door.

3 God is our sun— he makes our day ;
God is our Bhield— he guards our way
From all th' assaults of bell and >n\,

From foes without and foes within.

: O God, our Kin-, whose JU B*ay

The glorious ho.>t of heaven ob< ;
Display thy grace, exert thy power,
Till all on earth thy name adore!

92 Public Worship.

OCi John 4: 21-23. t. M.

OTHOU to whom, in ancient time,
The psalmist's sacred harp was strung,
Whom kings adored in song sublime,

And prophets praised with glowing tongue;

2 Not now on Zion's height alone,

The favored worshipper may dwell;
Nor where, at sultry noon, thy Son
Sat, weary, by the patriarch's well.

3 From every place below the skies,

^ The grateful song, the fervent prayer,
The incense of the heart may rise
To heaven, and find acceptance there.

4 O Thou to whom, in ancient time,

The holy prophet's harp was strung,
To thee at last, in every clime,

Shall temples rise, and praise be sung.

vO Daily Mercies. i,. jf -

"XTEW every morning is the love
-^ Our wakening and uprising prove:
Through sleep and darkness safely brought,
Eestored to life and power and thought.

2 New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven,
New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

3 Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be
As more of heaven in each we see;
Some softening gleam of love and prayer
bnall dawn on every cross and care.

4 Only, O Lord, in thy dear love,
Fit us for perfect rest above,
And keep us this, and every day,
To live more nearly as Ave pray. •

Opening of Worship. 93

34 " God is in this place." JL. JL.

LO, God is here! — let us adore,
And own how dreadful is this place!
Let all within us feel his power,
And silent bow before his face!

2 Lo, God is here! — him day and night,

United choirs of angels sing :
To him, enthroned above all height,
Let saints their humble worship bring.

3 Lord God of hosts! oh, may our praise

Thy eourts with grateful incense fill!
Still may we stand before thy face,
Still hear and do thy sorereign will!

oO Sabbath Morning1. C JI.

BLEST morning, whose young dawning
Beheld our rising God, [rays

That saw him triumph o'er the dust,
And leave his dark abode.

2 In the cold prison of the tomb

The dead Redeemer lav,
Till the revolving skies had brought
The third, tlf appointed day.

3 Hell and the grave unite their force

To hold our Lord, in vain;
The Bleeping Conqueror arose,
And burst their feeble chain.

4 To thy great name, almighty Lord,

These sacred hours we pay.
And loud hosannas shall proclaim
The triumph of the day.

36 c. * .

"TIREQUEXT the day of God returns,
J- To shed its quickening beams;
And yet how slow devotion burns!
How languid are its Haines!

C. M.

94 Public Worship.

2 Accept our faint attempts to love;

Our follies, Lord, forgive;
We would be like thy saints above,
And praise thee while we live.

3 Increase, O Lord, our faith and hope,

And fit us to ascend
Where th' assembly ne'er breaks up,
And Sabbaths never end.

37

QPIRIT of truth! on this thy day,
^ To thee for help we cry,
To guide us through the dreary way
Of dark mortality.

2 We ask not, Lord, the cloven flame,

Or tongues of various tone;
But long thy praises to proclaim
With fervor in our own.

3 No heavenly harpings soothe our ear,

JSTo mystic dreams we share;
let hope to feel thy comfort near,
And bless thee in our prayer.

4 When tongues shall cease, and power decay,

And knowledge empty prove,
Do thou thy trembling servants stay
With faith and hope and love.

^O Closin- Hymn. c. M-

rpHOU Holy Spirit, Lord of grace,
J- Eternal fount of love,
Inflame, we pray, our inmost hearts
With fire from heaven above.

2 As thou in bond of love dost ioin
The Father and the Son,
So fill us all with mutual love,
And knit our hearts in one.'

i

Opening of Worship. 95

3 All glory to the Father be,
All glory to the Son,
All glory to the Holy Ghost,
While endless ages run.

jy Opening of Worship. 7s.

LORD, we come before thee now,
At thy feet we humbly bow;
Oh, do not our suit disdain !
Shall we seek thee, Lord, in vain?

2 Lord, on thee our souls depend,
In compassion now descend;

Fill our hearts with thy rich grace,
Tune our lips to sing thy praise.

3 In thine own appointed way,
Now we seek thee ; here we stay ;
Lord, we know not how to _
Till a blessing thou bestow.

4 Comfort those who weep and mourn ;
Let the time of joy return ;

Those that are cast down lift up;
Make them strong in faith and hope.

5 Grant that all may seek and find
Thee a God supremely kind;
Heal the sick, the captive tree;
Let us all rejoice in thee.

Opening of Worship. ?«#.

TO thy temple we repair —
Lord, we love to worship there,
When within the veil we in-
Thee upon the mercy-seat.

2 While thy glorious name is snug,
Tune our lips — unloose our tongue;
Then our joyful souls shall bless
Thee, the Lord our Righteousness.

40

96 Public Worship.

3 While to thee our prayers ascend,
Let thine ear in love attend;
Hear us, for thy Spirit pleads,—
Hear, for Jesus intercedes.

4 While thy word is heard with awe,
While we tremble at thy law,
Let thy gospel's wondrous love
Every doubt and fear remove.

5 From thy house when we return,
Let our hearts within us burn ;
That at evening we may say,
" We have walked with God to-day."

tcI Close of Worship. 7S#

T^OR the mercies of the day,
J- For this rest upon our way,
Thanks to thee alone be given,
Lord of earth and King of heaven !

2 Cold our services have been,
Mingled every prayer with sin ;
But thou canst and wilt forgive;
By thy grace alone we live.

3 While this thorny path we tread,
May thy love our footsteps lead;
When our journey here is past,
May we rest with thee at last.

4 Let these earthly Sabbaths prove
Foretastes of our joys above;
While their steps thy children bend
To the rest which knows no end.

42

Sabbath-Day. j^ jf m

A NOTHER six days' work is done;'
-£*- Another Sabbath is begun:
Return, my soul, unto thy rest;
Enjoy the day thy God hath blest.

Sabbath Morning. 97

2 Oh, that our thoughts and thanks may rise
As grateful incense to the skies!

And draw from heaven that calm repose,
Which none but he who feels it knows.

3 That heavenly calm within the breast!
It is the pledge of that dear rest
Which for the church of God remains, —
The end of cares, the end of pains.

4 In holy duties let the day,
In holy pleasures, pass away.

How ^weet a Sabbath thus to spend,
In hope of one that ne'er shall end!

* 4u "Return, O <io<l of Hosts.*' L. Mm

ORD, in the temples of thy graee

L

Thy saints behold thy smiling face;
And oft have seen thy glory shine,
With power and majesty divine.

Tome, dearest Lord, thy children ary,
Our graces droop, our oomforti die;
Return! and lei thy glories me
Again to our admiring < 3

3 Till, filled with light and joy and love,
Thy courts below, like those above,

Triumphant hallelujahs rafoe,

And heaven and earth resound thy pfau

44 Jlorninp P»nlm. I,. n.

0 CHRIST! with each returning mora
Thine image to our hearts be borne;
And may we ever clearly

Our God and Saviour, Lord, in tie M ■!

2 All hallowed be our walk this day ;
May meekness form our early ray,
And faithful love our noontide light,
And hope our sunset, calm and bright.
JL

9 8 Public Worship.

3 May grace each idle thought control,
And sanctify our wayward soul ;
May guile depart, and malice cease,
And all within be joy and peace.

4 Our daily course, O Jesus, bless ;
Make plain the way of holiness :
From sudden falls our feet defend,
And cheer at last our journey's end.

45 John 4: 21. X*j|

JESUS, where'er thy people meet,
There they behold thy mercy-seat ;
"Where'er they seek thee, thou art found
And every place is hallowed ground.

2 For thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind ;

Such ever bring thee where they come,
And, going, take thee to their home.

3 Dear Shepherd of thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew ;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of thy saving name.

■

46

Invocation. C. M

COME, thou desire of all thy saints,
Our humble strains attend,
"While, with our praises and complaints,
Low at thy feet we bend.

How should our songs, like those above,

With warm devotion rise !
How should our souls, on wings of love.

Mount upward to the skies !

Come, Lord ! thy love alone can raise

In us the heavenly flame ;
Then shall our lips resound thy praise,

Our hearts adore thy name.

Sabbath Morning. gg

4 Dear Saviour, let thy glory shine,

And fill thy dwellings here,

Till life and love and joy divine

A heaven on earth appear.

5 Then shall our hearts enraptured say,

Come, great Redeemer ! come,
And bring the bright, the glorious day
That calls thy children home.

/ Sabbath Horning. CM.

HOW sweet, how calm, this Sabbath
morn !
How pure the air that breathes,
And soft the sounds upon it home,
And light its vapor wreaths]

2 It seems as if the Christian's prayer,

For peace and joy and love,
Were answered by the very air
That wafts its strain above.

3 Let each unholy passion cease,

Each evil thought be crushed,

Each anxious care that mars thy peace

In Faith and Love be bushed*

w

Psalm 1M. i . n.

ITHjoy we hail the Bacred day

Which God has called his own;

With joy the summons we obey

To worship at his throne.

2 Thy chosen temple, Lord, how fair!

Where willing votaries throng

To breathe the humble, fervent prayer,
And pour the choral song.

3 Spirit of grace! oh, deign to dwell

Within thy church below;
Make her in holiness excel.
With pure devotion glow.

100 Public Worship.

4 Lot peace within her walls be found;
Lei all her sons unite
To gpread with grateful zeal around
Her clear and shining light.

49 Luke 8: 5-15. CM.

OGOD ! by whom the seed is given,
By whom the harvest blest ;
Whose word, like manna showered from
Is planted in our breast, — [heaven,

2 Preserve it from the passing feet,

And plunderers of the air,
The sultry sun's intenser heat,
And thorns of worldly care.

3 Though buried deep, or thinly strown,

Do thou thy grace supply ;
The hope in earthly furrows sown
Shall ripen in the sky.

50

Evening Hymn. S. M.

THE day is past and gone,
The evening shades appear;
Oh, may we all remember well,
The night of death draws near.

Lord ! keep us safe this night,

Secure from all our fears ;
May angels guard us while we sleep,

Till morning light appears.

And when we early rise,

And view th' unwearied sun,
May we set out to win the prize,

And after glory run.

And when our days are past,

And we from time remove,
Oh, may we in thy bosom rest,

The bosom of thy love.

Close of Worship. 10 1

Psalm 48. S. M.

FAR as thy name is known,
The world declares thy praise ;
Thy saints, O Lord, before thy throne,
Their songs of honor raise.

2 With joy thy people stand

On Zion's chosen hill,
Proclaim the wonders of thy hand,
And counsels of thy will.

3 Let strangers walk around

The city where we dwell,
Compass and view thine holy ground,
And mark the building well —

4 The order of thy house,

The worship of thy court,
The cheerful songs, the solemn vows ;
And make a fair report.

5 How decent and how wise !

How glorious to behold !
Beyond the pomp that charms the eyes,
And rites adorned with gold.

6 The God we worship now

Will guide us till we die;
Will be our God while here below,
And ours above the sky.

Closing1 II y in n. S. M.

WE love the place, O God,
Wherein thine honor dwells ;
The pleasure of thy blest abode,
All earthly joy excels.

2 We love the house of prayer,
Wherein thy servants meet,
For thou, O Lord, art ever there,
Thy chosen flock to greet.

102 Public Worship.

3 We love the word of life, —

The word that tells of peace,
Of comfort in our daily strife,
Of joys that never cease.

4 Lord Jesus ! give us grace

On earth to love thee more,
In heaven to see thy glorious face,
And with thy saints adore.

53

SOFTLY now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away ;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord, I would commune with thee.

2 Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away ;
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord ! to dwell with thee.

54

OMY Saviour, Guardian true,
All my life is thine to keep ;
At thy feet my work I do,
In thine arms I fall asleep.

; Leaning on thy tender care,
Thou hast led my soul aright ;
Fervent was my morning prayer ;
Joyful is my song to-night,

Tender mercies on my way
Falling softly like the dew,

Sent me freshly every day —
I will bless the Lord for you.

Source of all that comforts me,
Well of joy for which I long ;

Let the song I sing to thee
Be an everlasting song !

7s.

7s.

Parting Hymn. 103

55 Parting Hymn. 7».

CHRISTIAN brethren, ere we part,
Every voice and every heart
Join, and to our Father raise ^
One last hymn of grateful praise.

2 Though we here should meet no more,
Yet there is a brighter shore ;
There, released from toil and pain,
There we all may meet again.

JO Evening Worship. 7s.

SOFTLY fades the twilight ray
Of the holy Sabbath-day ;
Gently as life's setting suu,
When the Christian's course is run.

2 Peace is on the world abroad ;
Tis the holy peace of God, —
Symbol of the peace within,
When his people rest from sin.

3 Still the Spirit lingers near,
Where the evening worshipper
Seeks communion with the skies,
Pressing onward to the prize.

4 Saviour, may our Sabbaths be
Days of peace and joy in thee,
Till in heaven our ^>ul< repose,

Where the Sabbath ne'er shall close.

)7 Heb. 13: 20, 21. 7s.

"VTOW mav He who from the dead
±S Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,
Jesus Christ, our King and Head,
All our souls in safety keep.

2 May he teach us to fulfil

What is pleasing in his sight ;
Make us perfect in his will,

And preserve us day and night !

104 Public I For ship.

To that great Redeemer's praise,

Who tin4 cov'nant sealed with blood,

!.■ t our hearts and voiees raise
Loud thanksgivings to our God.

58 Evening Twiiigrlit. c. M

I LOVE to steal a while away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.

2 I love, in solitude, to shed

The penitential tear ;
And all his promises to plead,
Where none but God can hear.

3 I love to think on mercies past

And future good implore ;
And all my cares and sorrows cast
On Him whom I adore.

4 I love, by faith, to take a view

Of brighter scenes in heaven ;
The prospect doth my strength renew,
While here by tempests driven.

5 Thus, when life's toilsome day is o'er,

May its departing ray
Be calm as this impressive hour,
And lead to endless day !

59

Psalm 139 : 12. c. ]

GOD of the sunlight hours, how sad
Would evening's shadows be ;
Or night, in deeper shadows clad,
If aught were dark to thee !

How mournfully that golden gleam
Would touch the thoughtful heart,

If, with its soft, retiring beam,
We saw thy light depart !

Sabbath Rest. 1 05

3 Enough, while these dull heavens may lower,

If here thy presence be ;
Then midnight shall be morning hour,
And darkness light to me.

4 Through the deep gloom of mortal things,

Thy light of love can throw
That ray which gilds an angel's wings,
To soothe a pilgrim's woe.

60 Sabbath Rest. C. M.

WHEN the worn spirit wants repose,
And sighs her God to seek,
How sweet to hail the evening's close
That ends the weary week.

2 How sweet to hail the early dawn
That opens on the sight,

When first that soul-reviving morn
Beams its new rays of light.

3 Sweet day, thine hours too soon will cease ;
Yet, while they gently roll,

Breathe, heavenly Spirit, source of peace,
A Sabbath o'er my soul.

4 When will my pilgrimage be done,
The world's long week be o'er,

That Sabbath dawn which needs no sun,
That day which fades no more?

Dl Vesper Hymn. C. M.

THE sun is sinking in the west,
The daylight swiftly flies;
Arise, my soul, and haste to pay
Thine evening sacrifice.

2 O Lord, into thy sacred charge,
In whom all spirits live,
My helpless soul, in humble faith,
Herself would wholly give.

106 Public Worship.

3 Beneath thine ever-watchful eye,

My soul would calmly rest,
Without a wish, without a thought
Abiding in the breast,—

4 Save that thy blessed will be done,

Whatever may betide ;
Dead to herself/and also dead
In thee, to all beside.

5 Lord on the cross thine arms

lo draw thy people nigh ; [stretchec
Oh grant us then, that cross to love

wer<

62

And m those arms to die.

1 Peter 5:7. c ^

rFHE twilight falls, the night is near ]
-*- l told my work away,
And kneel to Him who bends to hear
-the story of the day.

2 The old old story! yet I kneel

lo tell it at His call •
And cares grow lighter as I feel
-inat Jesus knows them all.

3 Yes all ! the morning and the night,

Thejoy, the grief, the loss,
Ihe roughened path, the sunbeam bright,
1 he hourly thorn and cross.

4 And Jesus loves me! all my heart

VV ith answering love is stirred ;
And every anguish, every smart,
■tinds healing in the Word.

5 So then I ]ay me down to rest,

As nightly shadows fall ;
And lean, confiding, on His breast,
\\ lio knows and pities all.

Evening Hymns. 107

Psalm 4. C. HL

LORD, thou wilt hear me when I pray ;
I am forever thine ;
I fear before thee all the day,
Nor would I dare to sin.

2 And while I rest my weary head,
From cares and business free,
'Tis sweet conversing on my bed
With my own heart and thee.

• 3 I pay this evening sacrifice ;

And when my work La done,
Great God! my faith and hope relies
Upon thy grace alone.

[ Thus, with my thoughts composed to peace,
I give mine eyes to sle >p ;
Thy hand in safety keeps my days,
And will my slumbers keep.

)4 Luke 24: St. L.M.

SUN of my soul ! thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if thou be near:
Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise
To hide thee from thy servant's ej

2 When soft the dews of kindly sleep
My weary eyelid- gently s1

Be my last thought, — how sweet to rest
Forever on my Saviour's breast.

3 Abide with me from morn till eve,
For without thee I cannot live ;

Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without thee I dare not die.

4 Be near to bless me when I wake,
Ere through the world my way I take ;
Till in the ocean of thy love

I lose myself in heaven above.

I08 Public (For ship.

00 Lam. :*: 2*. Isa. 15:7. J^jA

IMTTQod, how endless is thy love!
iU Thy jjiftfl are every evening new;
And morning mercies from above
Gently distil like early dew.

2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night,

Great Guardian of my sleeping hours';

Thy sovereign WOrd restores the light,

And quickens all my drowsy powers.

8 I yield my powers to thy command;
1<> thee 1 consecrate my days;
Perpetual blessings from thine hand
Demand perpetual songs of praise.

W Sabbath Evening. j^ ^r

fijWEET is the light of Sabbath eve,
£> An,, soft the sunbeams ling'ring there;
*or these blest hours the world I leave
N alted on wings of faith and prayer'.

2 Season of rest ! the tranquil soul

Feels the sweet calm, and melts in love:
And while these sacred moments roll,
1'aith sees a smiling heaven above.'

3 Nor will our days of toil be lon»-

Our pilgrimage will soon be trod •
An. we shall join the ceaseless song,
lhe endless Sabbath of our God.

fi7

M^nr01^ Vlh\" th-v courts ha™ met;'

Their") P ( I13'' bef°re thee bowed:

ineu taces Zionward were set

Vows with their lips to thee they vowed.
2 From easl to west, the sun surveyed,

From north to south, adoring "throngs;

Close of Worship. 109

And still, when evening stretched her shade,
The stars came out to hear their songs.

] And not a prayer, a tear, a sigh,

Hath failed this day some suit to gain ;
To those in trouble thou wert nigh :
Not one hath sought thy face in vain.

I Yet one prayer more : — and be it one

In which both heaven and earth accord,
Fulfil thy promise to thy Son ;

Let all that breathe call Jesus Lord !

DO "The Lord is my Light." L. M. 61.

SWEET Saviour, bless us ere we go ;
Thy word into our minds instil ;
And make our lukewarm hearts to glow

With lowly love and fervent will.
Thro' life's long day and death's dark night,
O gentle Jesus, be our Light.

Through the day, through the night,
O gentle Jesus, be our Light.

I The day is gone, its hours have run,
And thou hast taken count of all,

The scanty triumphs grace hath won,
The broken vow, the frequent fall.

Thro' life's long day and death's dark night,

O gentle Jesus, be our Light.
Chorus.

\ Grant us, dear Lord, from evil ways

True absolution and release ;
And bless us, more than in past days,

With purity and inward peace.
Thro' life's long day and death's dark night,
O gentle Jesus, be our Light.

Chorus.

[ Do more than pardon ; give us joy,
Sweet fear, and sober liberty,

1 10 Public Worship.

And simple hearts without alloy-
That only long to be like thee.

Thro' life's long day and death's dark night

O gentle Jesus, be our Light.
Chorus.

5 Labor is sweet, for thou hast toiled ;

And care is light, for thou hast cared ;
Ah ! never let our works be soiled

With strife, or by deceit ensnared.
Thro' life's long clay and death's dark night
O gentle Jesus, be our Light.

Chorus.

6 For all we love, the poor, the sad,

The sinful, unto thee we call ;
Oh, let thy mercy make us glad :

Thou art our Jesus, and our All.
Thro' life's long day and death's dark night,
O gentle Jesus, be our Light.

Chorus.

OcJ Evening: Hymn. I,. M.

rpHUS far the Lord has led me on ;
J- Thus far his power prolongs my days ;
And every evening shall make known
Some fresh memorial of his grace.

2 Much of my time has run to waste,

And I, perhaps, am near my home ;
But he forgives my follies past,

He gives me strength for days to come.

3 I lay my body down to sleep ;

Peace is the pillow for my head ;
While well-appointed angels keep

Their watchful stations round my bed.

4 T1\u/' when the ni£ht of death sha]I come>

My flesh shall rest beneath the ground,

And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb,
With sweet salvation in the sound.

Evening Hymns. 1 1 1

/U Cloae of Worship. Ii. 51.

ERE to the world again we go,
Its pleasures, cares, and idle show,
Thy grace, once more, O God, we crave,
From folly and from sin to save.

2 May the great truths we here have heard,
The lessons of thy holy word,

Dwell in our inmost bosoms d-^ep,
And all our souls from error keep.

3 Oh, may the influence of this day
Long as our memory with us stay,
And as an angel guardian prov

To guide us to our home aba

/l Psalm 17: H. I.. JI.

GLORY to thee, my God! this oight,
For all the blessings of the light ;
Keep me, oh, keep me, Bang of kings I
(Jeneath thine own almighty wii

2 Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son,
The ill that I this day have don<
That with the world, myself, and th<
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.

3 Teach me to live, that 1 may dread
The grave as little a> my bed ;
Teach me to die, that bo I may
Rise glorious at the awful day.

4 Oh, let my soul on thee rep

And may sweet sloop my eyelids close, —
Bleep that shall me more vigorous make

To servo my God, When I awake.

5 Praise God, from whom all blessings tlow ;
Praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host !
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

1 1 2 Public Worship,

72 Close of Worship. I*. M

DISMISS us with thy blessing, Lord !
Help us to feed upon thy word ;
All that has been amiss, forgive,
And let thy truth within us live.

2 Though we are guilty, thou art good ;
Wash all our works in Jesus' blood ;
Give every burdened soul release,
And bid us all depart in peace.

rjn " Abide with us ; for it is toward

/ O evening." 8s & 7s

TARRY with me, O ray Saviour !
For the day is passing by ;
See ! the shades of evening gather,
And the night is drawing nigh.

2 Deeper, deeper grow the shadows,

Paler now the glowing west,
Swift the night of death advances ;
Shall it be the night of rest ?

3 Feeble, trembling, fainting, dying,

Lord, I cast myself on thee ;
Tarry with me through the darkness ;
While I sleep, still watch by me.

4 Tarry with me, O my Saviour !

Lay my head upon thy breast
Till the morning ; then awake me, —
Morning of eternal rest !

/ 4" The Evening Blessing. 8s A 7s.

SAVIOUR, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal :
Sin and want we come confessing ;
Thou canst save, and thou canst heal.

2 Though destruction wTalk around us,
Though the arrow near us fly,

Evening Hymns. 113

Angel guards from thee surround us ;
We are safe, if thou art nigh.

3 Though the night be dark and dreary,

Darkness cannot hide from thee :
Thou art he, who, never weary,
Watcheth where thy people be.

4 Should swift death this night o'ertake us,

And our couch become our tomb,
May the morn in heaven awake us,
Clad in light and deathless bloom !

/ 0 Holy Memories. 8s A 7«.

SILENTLY the shades of evening
Gather round my lowly door ;
Silently they bring before me
FacesI shall see DO more.

2 Oh! the lost, the unforgotten,

Though the world be oft forgot;

Oh ! the shrouded and the lonely,
In our hearts they perifth not

3 Living in the silent hours,

Where our spirits only blend,
They, unlinked with earthly trouble,
We, still hoping tor its end.

4 How such holy memories cluster.

Like the stars when storms are pa>t ;
Pointing up to that far heaven
We may hope to gain at la>t.

/O Parting Hymn. Ss A 7s.

O, the day of rest deelineth,

L(

Gather last the shades of night ;
May the Sun whieh ever shineth

Fill our souls with heavenly light!
While, thine ear of love addressing,

Thus our parting hymn we sing,
Father, grant thine evening blessing,
Fold us safe beneath thy wing !
8

i 1 4 Public Worship,

77 Luke 24: 29. 10s,

ABIDE with me ! Fast falls the eventide,
The darkness deepens ; Lord, with me
abide !
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me !

2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away ;
Change and decay in all around I see ;

0 Thou, who changest not, abide with me !

3 I need thy presence every passing hour :
What but thy grace can foil the tempter's

power ?
Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be ?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide

with me !

4 I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless :
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness :
Where is death's sting? where, grave, thy

victory ?

1 triumph still, if thou abide with me !

5 Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes ;
Shine through the gloom and point me to

the skies ;
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain

shadows flee !
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me !

■ 0 Closing Hymn. 8s «fc 7s.

T OKD, dismiss us with thy blessing,
-LJ Fill our hearts with joy and peace ;
Let us each, thy love possessing,
Triumph in redeeming grace :

Oh, refresh us,
Travelling through this wilderness.

Opening Hymn, 115

2 Thanks we give, and adoration,

For thy gospel's joyful sound ;
May the fruits of thy salvation
In our hearts and lives abound ;

May thy presence
With us evermore be found.

3 Then, whene'er the signal's given,

Us from earth to call away,
Borne on angels' wings to heaven,
Glad the summons to obey,

May we ever
Reign with Christ in endless day.

y Opening Hymn. 8w A 7s.

IN thy name, 0 Lord | assembling,
We thy people DOW draw near :
Teach U8 to rejoice with trembling;
Speak, and Jet thy servants hear;

Hear with meekness, —
Hear thy word with godly liar.

2 While our days on earth aiv lengthened,

May we give them, Lord, to tie
Cheered by hope, and daily strengthened,
May we run, nor weary be;

Till thy glory
Without cloud in heaven we see.

3 There, in worship purer, sweeter,

All thy people shall adore ;

Tasting of enjoyment great r

Than they could conceive before;

Full enjoyment, —
Full, and pure, for evermore.

U Parting Hymn. 8s A 7s.

GOD of our salvation, hear us ;
Bless, oh, bless us, ere we go ;
When we join the world, be near us,
Lest we cold and careless grow.

1 1 6 Public Worship.

Saviour, keep us ;
Keep us safe from every foe.

2 May we live in view of heaven,

Where we hope to see thy face ;
Save us from unhallowed leaven,
All that might obscure thy grace ;

Keep us walking
Each in his appointed place.

3 As our steps are drawing nearer

To the place we call our home,
May our view of heaven grow clearer,
Hope more bright of joys to come ;

And, when dying,
May thy presence cheer the gloom.

81

Benediction. 8s «& 7s,

MAY the grace of Christ our Saviour,
And the Father's boundless love,
With the Holy Spirit's favor,

Rest upon us from above !
Thus may we abide in union

With each other and the Lord,

And possess, in ^weet communion,

Joys which earth cannot afford.

SECTION III.

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

(a.) Delight in the Word ofOod.

(J.) The Worda Lamp and Quide.

(c.) The Gospel Oloi iaeting.

"Thy stntutrs bare been my nog! In the house of my
pilgrimage."— I'sai.m L19: M.

117

SECTION III.

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

OZ Psalm 19. Wm n.

rpiIK heavens declare thy Lrl<>ry, Lord;
A Jn every star thy wisdom shin
But when our eyes behold thy' word,
We read thy name in fairer lin<

2 The rolling sun, the changing 1 i lt 1 1 1 ,
And night and day thy power confi
lint the blest volume thou hi
Reveals thy justice and thj

o Sun, moon, an<l bU y thy praise

Round the whole earth, and never stand ;
Bo when thy truth began its ra

It touched and glanced on every land.

4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel i

Till through the world thy truth hath run;

Till Christ hath all the nations blest

That sec the light, or feel the >un.

83 Mm ■.

d i REAT Sun of Righteousness, arise!
vJ Bios the dark world with heavenly
Thy gospel makes the simple wise, [light:
Thy laws are pure, thy judgmt nts right.

2 Thy noblest wonders here we view
In souls renewed, and sins forgiven;
Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew,

And make thy word mv guide to heaven.

US)

120 The Holy Scriptures.

84 The Gospel. 1L. B

GOD, in the gospel of his Son,
Makes his eternal counsels known :
Here love in all its glory shines,
And truth is drawn in fairest lines.

2 Here sinners, of an humble frame,
May taste his grace and learn his name;
May read, in characters of blood,

The wisdom, power, and grace of God.

3 Here faith reveals to mortal eyes
A brighter world beyond the skies ;

Here shines the light which guides our way
From earth to realms of endless day.

4 Oh, grant us grace, almighty Lord !
To read, and mark thy holy word :
Its truth with meekness to receive,
And by its holy precepts live.

Ov) The Bible Precious. I,. M.

T LOVE the sacred book of God !
-i- No other can its place supply ;
It points me to his own abode,

It gives me wings, and bids me fly.

2 Sweet book ! in thee my eyes discern

The very image of my Lord ;
From thine instructive page I learn
The joys his presence will afford.

3 In thee I read my title clear

To mansions that will ne'er decay ; —
Dear Lord, oh, when wilt thou appear,
And bear thy prisoner away !

4 While I am here, these leaves supply

His place, and tell me of his love ;
I read with faith's discerning eye,
And gain a glimpse of joys above.

The Holy Scriptures : Hymn of Praise, 1 21

5 I know in them the Spirit breathes
To animate his people here ;
Oh, may these truths prove life to all,
Till in his presence we appear !

OU The Goffpel Glorious. L.. 31 .

UPON the gospel's sacred page
The gathered beams of ages shine ;
And, as it hastens, every age

But makes its brightness more divine.

2 On mightier wing, in loftier flight,

From year to year does knowledge soar;
And, as it soars, the gospel light
B (COmefl effulgent more and more.

3 More glorious still, as centuries roll,

New regions blest, new powera unfurled,
Expanding with the expanding soul,

It.*radian<v shall o'arflow the world, —

4 Flow to restore, hut not destroy ;

As when the cloudless lamp of day
Pours out its floods of light and joy,
And sweeps the lingering mist away.

O/ Fralso lor tlio <;<>«pcl. I.. Jf.

LETT everlasting glories crown
Thy head, my Saviour and my Lord !
Thy hands have brought salvation down,
And writ the blessings in thy Word.

2 In vain the trembling conscience seeks

Some solid ground to rest upon ;
With long despair the spirit breaks,

Till we apply to Christ alone.

3 How well thy blessed truths agree!

How wise and holy thy commands!
Thy promises, how firm they be!

How n'rni our hope and comfort stands !

122 The Holy Scriptures.

4 Should all the forms that men devise
Assault my faith with treacherous art,
I'd call them vanity and lies,

And bind the gospel to my heart.

Doxology. ^ j,

T)R AISE God, from whom all blessings Aoa
i Praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

OO Psalm 19. i,. p. M

[" LOVE the volume of thy word.
-1- What light aiid joy those leaves afford

To souls benighted and distressed !
Thy precepts guide my doubtful way,
Thy fear forbids my feet to stray,

Thy promise leads my heart to rest.

2 Thy threatenings wake mv slumbering eves,
And warn me where my danger lies ; =

But 'tis thy blessed gospel, Lord,
That makes my guilty conscience clean,
Converts my soul, subdues my sin,

And gives a free, but large reward.

3 Who knows the errors of his thoughts?
My God ! forgive my secret faults,

And from presumptuous sins restrain :
Accept my poor attempts of praise,
lfaat I have read thy book of grace

And book of nature not in vain.

Psalm 148. jAu p. M-

TLL praise my Maker with my breath ;
-"-And when my voice is lost in death,
1 raise shall employ my nobler powers:

wl-fe°f praise sha11 ne'er be P^t,
While hie and thought and being last,
Or immortality endures.

Hymn of Praise. 1 2-7

2 Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God ; he made the sky

And earth and seas, with all their train :
His truth forever stands secure ;
He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor,

And none shall find his promise vain.

3 The Lord hath eyes to give the blind ;
The Lord supports the sinking mind;

He sends the tabling conscience peace;
lie helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,

And grants the pris'ner sweet rel< a

4 He loves hi> saints, he know- them well.
But turns tin* wicked down to hell:

Thy God, O Zion, ever n igna I
Let every tongue, let every a
In this exalted work i

Praise him in everlasting -trains.

5 I'll praise him while he lends me breath;
And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise Bhall employ my nob rs :

My days of praise shall ne'er be pastj
While life and thought and being last,

( )r immortality endures.

90 The Kil.le. «'. ■.

J AMP of our feet ! whereby we trace
^ Our path when wont to stray ;
Stream from the fount of heavenly gra<
Brook by the travelh r's way !

2 Bread of our souls! whereon wc feed ;

True manna from on high !
Our guide and chart ! wh< rein we read
Of realms beyond the sky.

3 Pillar of fire through watches dark,

And radiant cloud by day!

When waves would whelm our tossing bark,
Our anchor and our stay !

1 24 The Holy Scriptures.

4 Word of the everlasting God !

Will of his glorious Son !
Without thee how could earth be trod,
Or heaven itself be won ?

5 Lord ! grant us all aright to learn

The wisdom it imparts,
And to its heavenly teaching turn
With simple, childlike hearts.

vyl Psalm 119. CM

HOW shall the young secure their hearts
And guard their lives from sin ?
Thy word the choicest rules imparts,
To keep the conscience clean.

2 'Tis like the sun, a heavenly light,

That guides us all the day ;
And, through the dangers of the night,
A lamp to lead our way.

3 Thy precepts make me truly wise :

I hate the sinner's road :
I hate my own vain thoughts that rise,
But love thy law, my God.

4 Thy word is everlasting truth,

How pure is every page !
That holy book shall guide our youth,
And well support our age.

Kju Psalm 119. CM.

/~\H, how I love thy holy law!
^ 'Tis daily my delight ;
And thence my meditations draw
Divine advice bv nio-ht

2 My waking eyes prevent the day,
To meditate thy word ;
My soul with longing melts away
To hear thy gospel, Lord.

Holy Scriptures. 125

3 How doth thy word my heart engage !

How well employ my tongue !
And, in my tiresome pilgrimage,
Yields me a heavenly song.

4 When nature sinks, and spirits droop,

Thy promises of grace
Are pillars to support my hope ;
And there I write thy praise;

Doxolojjy. C. M.

LET God the Father, and the Son,
And Spirit, he adored,
Where there are works to make him known,
Or saints to love the Lord.

UO The Glorious 13— prl c. >i .

GLORY gilds the sacred page,

A

Majestic, like the sun ;

It gives a light t<> every a.
It gives, hut borrows none.

The hand that gave it still .-applies

The gracious light and heal ;
Its truths upon the nations rise, —

They rise, but never Bet.

3 Let everlasting thanks be thine,
For such a bright display

As makes a world of darkness shine
With beams of heavenly day.

My soul rejoices to pursue

The steps of Him I love,
Till glory breaks upon my view,

In brighter worlds above.

94 Psalm S9. C. ■.

BLEST are the souls that hear and know
The gospel's joyful sound;
Peace shall attend the path they go,
And light their steps surround.

126 Thi Holy Scriptures.

2 Their joy shall bear their spirits up

Through their Kedeerner's name;
His righteousness exalts their hope,
Nor Satan dares condemn.

3 The Lord, our glory and defence,

Strength and salvation gives ;
Israel, thy King forever reigns,
Thy God forever lives.

95 Psalm 119. CM]

LOKD, I have made thy word my choice i
My lasting heritage;
There shall my noblest powers rejoice,
My warmest thoughts engage.

2 I'll read the histories of thy love,
And keep thy laws in sight ;
While through the promises I rove,
With ever fresh delight.

'Tis a broad land of wealth unknown,
Where springs of life arise,

Seeds of immortal bliss are sown,
And hidden glory lies.

The best relief that mourners have;

It makes our sorrows blest;
Our fairest hope beyond the grave,

And our eternal rest. »

Psalm 119 : 105. €. Iff.

96

HOW precious is the book divine,
By inspiration given!
Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine
To guide our souls to heaven.

2 It sweetly cheers our drooping hearts,
In this dark vale of tears ;
Life, light, and joy it still imparts,
And quells our rising fears.

Praise for the Gospel. 12J

3 This lamp, through all the tedious night
Of life, shall guide our way;
Till we behold the clearer light
Of an eternal day.

1/ JIatt. 13: S. C. WL

ALMIGHTY God! thy word is cast
Like seed into the ground ;
Let now the dew of heaven descend,

And righteous fruits abound.

2 Let not the foe of Christ and man

This holy seed remove ;
But give it root in every heart,
To bring forth fruits of love.

3 Let not the world's deceitful tt

The rising plant destroy;
But let it yield, a hundred-fold,

The fruits of peace and joy.

4 Oft as the precious Beed is sown,

Thy quickening grace bestow,

That all, whose souls the truth receive,
Its saving power may know.

O Praise for tlio Gospel. C. M.

FATHER of mercies, in thy word
What endless glory shines!

Forever be thy name adored
For these celestial lines.

2 Here my Redeemer's welcome voice

Spreads heavenly peace around;
And life and everlasting joys
Attend the blissful sound.

3 Oh, may these heavenly pages be

My ever dear delight;
And still new beauties may I see,
And still increasing light !

I28 The Holy Scriptures.

4 Divine Instructor, gracious Lord,
Be thou forever near;
Teach me to love thy sacred word,
And view my Saviour there.

99 Psalm 119. C. M

H that the Lord would guide my way

o

To keep his statutes still!
Oh that my God would grant me grace
To know and do his will !

2 Oh, send thy Spirit down, to write

Thy law upon my heart ;
Nor let my tongue indulge deceit,
Nor act the liar's part.

3 Order my footsteps by thy word,

And make my heart sincere ;
Let sin have no dominion, Lord,
But keep my conscience clear.

4 Make me to walk in thy commands,

Tis a delightful road ;
Nor let my head nor heart nor hands
Offend against my God.

Doxology. C. M,

LET God the Father, and the Son,
And Spirit, be adored,
Where there are works to make him known
Or saints to love the Lord.

SECTION IV.

GOD:

THE FATHER, THE BON, AND THE
HOLY GHOST.

(a.) The Being, Attributes >, Works, Provi-
dence, Government, and Glory of
God. Adoration*

(b.) TJir Incarnation: The Birth, Life,
\\ 'orks, Passion, Resurrection,

Ascension , and Exaltation of

JeSUS Christ.

(c.) The Holy Ghostand the Ever-BU \

Trinity.

"Serve the Lord with gladness; oomc before his pre-
sence with singing."— Psalm 100.

129

SECTION IV.

GOD:

THE FATHER, THE BON, AND I If I : HOLT GH06T.

lUU Pmilm 17. L. ■.

BK thou exalted, ( > my God!
Aboye the heavens win re angels dwell;

Thy power on earth be known a
And land to land thy wond< rs tell.

2 My heart is fixed : mj

Immortal h thy name ;

Awake my toni and his prai

My tongue, tne glory of my frai

3 High o'er the earth his m< rcy reigns,

And reach( s to 1 he

Hl8 truth to em •main-,

When low< r wor and die.

4 Be thou exalt d, ( > mj ( ! >d!

Aboye the hea^ i
Thy power on ear h be knov n r
And land to land thj wonders tell.

1U1 I*' aim <;s. L, Mm

If [N6D0MS and thrones to God I
v Grown him, ye natioi m song;

His wondrous names and pow< rs n
His honors shall enrich your vei

2 Proclaim him King, pronounce him ldest;
He's your defence, your joy, your rest;
When terrors rise, and nation- faint,
God is the strength of every saint.

131

132 Perfections of God: Praise.

102 Te I>cnm. Ii. M.

rPO Thee all angels cry aloud,
1 And ceaseless raise their songs on high
Both cherubim and seraphim,
The heavens and all the powers therein.

2 The apostles join the glorious throng;
The prophets swell the immortal song;
The martyrs' noble army raise
Eternal anthems to thy praise.

3 Thee, holy, holy, holy King,

Thee, O Lord God of Hosts! they sing;
Thus earth below, and heaven above,
Resound thy glory and thy love.

4 Thee we adore, Eternal Lord ;

We praise thy name with one accord;
Thy saints who here thy goodness see
Through all the world do worship thee.

iUo Psalni 117. Ii.M.

FROM all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise;
Let the Redeemer's name be sung,
Through every land, by every tongue.

2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ;
Eternal truth attends thy word :
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
Till suns shall rise and set no more!

1 U4 The Glory of God. I,. M.

/^lOME, O my soul! in sacred lays,
^ Attempt thy great Creator's praise:
But, oh, what tongue can speak his fame!
What mortal verse can reach the theme!

2 Enthroned amid the radiant spheres,
He glory, like a garment, wears;

Perfections of God: Praise. 133

To form a robe of light divine,

Ten thousand suns around him shine.

► In all our Maker's grand designs,
Almighty power, with wisdom, shines;
His works through all this wondrous frame
Declare the glory of his name.

: Kaised on devotion's lofty wTing,
Do thou, my soul, his glories sing;
And let his praise employ thy tongue,
Till listening worlds shall join the song!

05 Psalm 46 : 10. L.M.

WAIT, O my soul, thy Maker's will!
Tumultuous passions, all be still !
Nor let a murmuring thought arise;
His ways are just, his counsels wise.

! He in the thickest darkness dwells,
Performs his work, the cause conceals;
But, though his methods are unknown,
Judgment and truth support his throne.

\ In heaven and earth and air and seas,
He executes his firm decrees;
And by his saints it stands confessed,
That what he does is ever best.

[ Wait, then, my soul, submissive wrait,
Prostrate before his awful seat;
And, 'mid the terrors of his rod,
Trust in a wise and gracious God.

UO Job 11: 7. Ii.H.

GREAT God! in vain man's narrowr view
Attempts to look thy nature through;
Our laboring powers with reverence owrn
Thy glories never can be known.

Not the high seraph's mighty thought,
Who countless years his God has sought,

134 Perfections of God : Praise.

Such wondrous height or depth can find,
Or fully trace thy boundless mind.

3 Yet, Lord, thy kindness deigns to show
Enough for mortal minds to know;
While wisdom, goodness, power divine,
Through all thy works and conduct shine.

4 Oh, may our souls with rapture trace
Thy works of nature and of grace;
Explore thy sacred name, and still
Press on to know and do thy will !

Boxology. E,. si

PRAISE God, from whom all blessing*
flow,
Praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

1U/ Psaain 100. t.jf.

""VTE nations round the earth, rejoice
-*- Before the Lord, your sovereign King ;
Serve him with cheerful heart and voice,
With all your tongues his glory sing.

2 The Lord is God ; 'tis he alone

Doth life and breath and being give :
We are his work, and not our own,
The sheep that on his pastures live.

3 Enter his gates with songs of joy,

With praises to his courts repair;
And make it your divine employ

To pay your thanks and honors there.

4 The Lord is good ; the Lord is kind ;

Great is his grace, his mercy sure ;
Andall the race of man shall find
His truth from age to age endure.

Perfections of God: Praise. 135

[08 Psalm 146. ■* Mm

PRAISE ye the Lord ! my heart shall join
In work so pleasant, so divine :
My days of praise shall ne'er be passed,
While 'life and thought and being last.

jj Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God : he made the sky
And earth and seas, with all their train ;
And none shall find his promise vain.

5 His truth forever stands secure ;
He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor,
He helps the stranger in distr
The widow and the father]

[ Be loves his saints, he knows them well,
But turns the wicked down to hell:

Thy God, 0 Zion, ever reigns i
Praise him in ing strains!

[09 I»*alm 1!3: ">. <>. IteHi

UP to the Lord, who reigns on high,
And views the nations from afar,
Let everlasting praises fly,

And tell how large his bounties are.

God, who must stoop to view the ski-
And bow to see what angels do, —

Down to our earth he casts his e\

And bends his footsteps downward too.

] He overrules all mortal thin

And manages our mean affairs;
On humble souls, the King of ki:
Bestows his counsels and his cares.

I Our sorrows and our tears we pour
Into the bosom of our God ;
He hears us in the mournful hour,
And helps to bear the heavy load.

136 Perfections of God: Praise,

5 Oh, could our thankful hearts devise
A tribute equal to thy grace,
To the third heaven our song should rise
And teach the golden harps thy praise'

110

llV Psalm 97. t;a|

npiT Almighty reigns, exalted hio-h
J- O'er all the earth, o'er all the sky;
Though clouds and darkness veil his feet,
His dwelling is the mercy-seat.

2 O ye that love his holy name,
Hate every work of sin and shame ■
He guards the souls of all his friends
And from the snares of hell defends. '

3 Immortal light and joys unknown,
Are for the saints in darkness sown ■
Ihose glorious seeds shall spring and rise,
And the bright harvest bless our eyes.

4 Rejoice, ye righteous, and record
llie sacred honors of the Lord ■
^one but the soul that feels his' grace
Can triumph in his holiness.

Ill

* Psalm 97. t> 3,

JEHOVAH reigns; his throne is high"
„. -hL1ls robes are light and majesty:
His glory shines with beams so bright
-No mortal can sustain the sight. '

2 His terrors keep the world in awe •
His justice guards his holy law ;
His love reveals a smiling face •
His truth and promise seal the grace.

3 HeTjt^ J* J"?- what wisd°*i ^ines!
He baffles Satan's deep designs;

His power is sovereign to fulfil

•me noblest counsels of his will

GocTs Sovereign JVisdo?n. 137

And will this glorious Lord descend
To be my Father and ray Friend ?
Then let my songs with angels join ;
Heaven is secure, if God is mine.

lIIZj Rom. 1: 20. L.M.

THERE'S nothing bright, above, below,
From flowers that bloom to slurs that
But in its light my soul can [glow>

Some features of the Deity.

There's nothing dark, below, above,
But in its gloom I trace thy love,
And meekly wait the moment when
Thv touch shall make all bright again.

3 The light, the dark, where'er I look.
Shall Be one pure and shining 1>
Where I may read, in words of flame,

The glories of thy wondrous name.

llvJ <«o<l our Source ami llnd. I., n.

Tiror, Lord, of all the parent art,
Of all things thou alone the end ■
On thee still fix our wavering heart ;

To thee let all our actions tend.

2 Thou, Lord, art light; thy native ray

Xo change nor shadow ever knows;
To our dark souls thy light display.

The glory of thy lace disclose.

3 Thou, Lord, art love ; the fountain thou

Whence mercy unexhausted flows ;

On barren hearts, oh, shed it now,
And make the desert bear the rose!

4 So shall our every power to thee

In love and holy service rise;
And body, soul, and spirit be
Thy ever-living sacrifice.

138 God's Sovereign Wisdom.

J 14 Rom. 11 : 33. I,, jj !

LORD, my weak thought in vain would]
climb
To search the starry vault profound :
In vain would wing her flight sublime
To find creation's outmost bound.

2 But weaker yet that thought must prove

To search thy great eternal plan,—
Thy sovereign counsels, born of love
Long ages ere the world began.

3 When my dim reason would demand

Why that or this thou dost ordain,
By some vast deep I seem to stand,
Whose secrets I must ask in vain.

4 When doubts disturb my troubled breast,

And all is dark as night to me,
Here, as on solid rock, I rest ;
That so it seemeth good to thee.

110 Psalm 93. fc.M#

mHE floods, O Lord, lift up their voice,
J- I he mighty floods lift up their roar :
Ine floods 111 tumult loud rejoice,
And climb in foam the sounding shore.

2 But mightier than the mighty sea,

Ihe Lord of glory reigns on hio-h :
-bar 0 er its waves we look to thee^
And see their fury break and die.

3 Thy word is true, thy promise sure,

lhat ancient promise, sealed in love;
■nere be thy temple ever pure

As thy pure mansions shine above.

A 1 0 Ood's Sovereignty. <;. M-

XT EEP silence, all created things,
-*-*. And wait your Maker's nod !

God's Sovereignty and Spirituality \ 139

My soul stands trembling while she sings
The honors of her God.

2 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown,

Hang on his firm decree ;
He sits on no precarious throne,
Nor borrows leave to be.

3 Before his throne a volume lies,

With all the fates of iih-u,
With every angel's form and size,

Drawn by th' eternal pen.

4 His providence unfolds the book,

And makes his counsels
Each opening leaf, and every stroke,

Fulfils S()l: .1.

5 My ( rod, I would qo! long

My fate with <->\-
What gloomy I'm - 1
Or what

6 In thy fair book of life an I

May I but find my nai
Recorded in some humbl pi
Beneath my L >rd, the Lamb !

1/ John 1: 21. O.E

_()]) is a Spirit, just and wise;
II mind :

In vain to Heaven we raise our cries,
And leave our hearts behin 1.

G

2 Nothing but truth :- throne

With honor can app
The painted hypocrites are knows

Through th<

3 Their lifted eyes salute the ski

Their bending knees the ground;
But God abhors the sacrifi*

Where not the heart is found.

HO God's Love.

4 Lord, search my thoughts, and try my
And make my soul sincere ; [ways

Then shall I stand before thy face, >

And find acceptance there.

-HO l«Iohai4:8. CM.

A MID the splendors of thy state,
-^ O God ! thy love appears,
Soft as the radiance of the moon

Among a thousand stars.

2 In all thy doctrines and commands,

Thy counsels and designs,
In every work thy hands have framed,
Thy love supremely shines.

3 Sinai, in clouds and smoke and fire,

Thunders thine awful name !
But Zion sings, in melting notes,
The honors of the Lamb.

4 Angels and men the news proclaim

Through earth and heaven above ;
And all, with holy transport, sino-
That God, the Lord, is love.

119

Psalm 139. c# M#

ORD, where shall guilty souls retire,
* forgotten and unknown?
In hell they meet thy dreadful fire,
In heaven thy glorious throne.

2 Should I suppress my vital breath,

I escape the wrath divine,
Ihy voice would break the bars of death,
And make the grave resign.

3 If winged with beams of morning light,

I fly beyond the west,
Ihy hand, which must support my flight,
Wouid soon betray my rest.

God* s Omnipresence. 1 41

4 If o'er my sins I think to draw

The curtains of the night,
Those flaming eves that guard thy law
Would turn the shades to light.

5 The beams of noon, the midnight hour,

Are both alike to thee :
Oh, may I ne'er provoke that power
From which I cannot flee !

11

1^0 Psalm 139. CM.

N all my vast concerns with thee,
In vain my soul would try
To shun thy presence, Lord, or flee
The notice of thine

2 Thine all-surroundin{ surveys

My rising and my r<
My public walk-, my private ways,
The Becreta of my breast

3 My thoughts lie Open to the Lord,

Before they're formed within ;
And ere my lips pronounce the word.
He knows the sense 1 mean.

4 Oh, wondrous knowledge, deep and high!

Where can a creature hide f

Within thy circling arms 1 lie,

Beset on every side.

5 So let thy grace surround me still,

And like a bulwark prove,

To guard my soul from every ill,
Secured by sovereign love.

\L\ Psalm 1S». CK

JEHOVAH, God ! thy gracious power
On every hand we see ;
Oh, may the blessings of each hour
Lead all our thoughts to thee!

1 42 God's Gracious Power,

2 If, on the wings of morn, we speed

To earth's remotest bound,
Thy hand will there our footsteps lead,
Thy love our path surround.

3 Thy power is in the ocean deeps,

And reaches to the skies ;
Thine eye of mercy never sleeps,
Thy goodness never dies.

4 From morn till noon, till latest eve,

Thy hand, O God, we see ;
And all the blessings we receive
Proceed alone from thee.

5 In all the varying scenes of time,

On thee our hopes depend ;
Through every age, in every clime,
Our Father, and our Friend.

XLL Psalm 46. I*. M.

GOD is the refuge of his saints,
When storms of sharp distress invade;
Ere we can offer our complaints,
Behold him present with his aid.

2 Let mountains from their seats be hurled

Down to the deep and buried there,
Convulsions shake the solid world ;
Our faith shall never yield to fear.

3 Loud may the troubled ocean roar ;

In sacred peace our souls abide ;
While every nation, every shore,

Trembles and dreads the swelling tide.

4 There is a stream, whose gentle flow

Supplies the city of our God,
Life, love, and joy, still gliding through,
And watering our divine abode.

5 That sacred stream, thine holy word,

Our grief allays, our fear controls ;

God our Refuge: His "Various Praise" 143

Sweet peace thy promises afford,

And give new strength to fainting souls.

6 Zion enjoys her Monarch's love,

Secure against a threatening hour ;
Nor can her firm foundations move,

Built on his truth and armed with power.

12o Psalm 145. I,. M.

MY God, my King, thy various praise
Shall fill the remnant of my days ;
Thy grace employ my humble tongue,
Till death and glory raise the song.

2 The wings of every hour shall bear
Some thankful tribute to thine ear ;
And every setting sun shall see
New works of duty done for thee.

3 Let distant times and nations raise
The long succession of thy praise ;
And unborn ages make my song
The joy and triumph of their tongue.

4 But who can speak thy wondrous deeds?
Thy greatness all our thoughts exceeds;
Vast and unsearchable thy ways !

Vast and immortal be thy praise !

124 Psalm 36. &.M.

HIGH in the heavens, eternal God !
Thy goodness in full glory shines;

Thy truth shall break through every cloud
That veils and darkens thy designs.

2 Forever firm thy justice stands,

As mountains their foundations keep :
Wise are the wonders of thy hands ;
Thy judgments are a mighty deep.

3 My God, how excellent thy grace !

Whence all our hope and comfort springs ;

144 God : Creator and Judge.

The Bona of Adam, in distress,
Fly to the shadow of thy wings.

4 From the provisions of thy house

We shall be fed with sweet repast;
There mercy like a river flows,
And brings salvation to our taste.

5 Life, like a fountain rich and free.

Springs from the presence of my Lord ;
And in thy light our souls shall see
The glories promised in thy word.

1 £ 0 Psalm 19. Ii. M

THHE spacious firmament on high,
J- With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.

2 Th' unwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display;
And publishes to every land
The work of an almighty hand.

3 Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale ;
And nightly, to the listening earth,
Repeats the story of her birth ;

4 While all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.

5 What though in solemn silence all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball ;
What though no real voice nor sound
Amid their radiant orbs are found ;

6 In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
Forever singing as they shine —
" The hand that made us is divine.''

God : Creator and Judge. 145

12b Psalin 7. JL- M.

THE Lord is Judge : before his throne
All nations shall his justice own :
Oh, may my soul be found sincere,
And stand approved, with courage there.

2 The Lord, in righteousness arrayed,
Surveys the world his hands have made ;
Pierces the heart, and tries the reins,
And judgment from on high ordains.

3 My God. my shield ! around me place
The shelter of the Saviour's grace ;
Then, when thine arm the just shall save,
My life shall triumph o'er the grave.

\Ll Psalm 100. In M.

BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy ;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy.

2 His sovereign power, without our aid,

Made us of clay, and formed us men ;
And when, like wandering sheep, we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.

3 We are his people, we his care,

Our souls, and all our mortal frame ;
What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to thy name!

1 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs ;
High as the heavens our voices raise ;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

Wide as the world is thy command,

Vast as eternity thy love ;
Firm as a rock thy truth must stand,

When rolling years shall cease to move.
10

146 Tbi Compassions of God.

128

Psalm 103. S. M

THE pity of the Lord
To those that fear his name,
Is such as tender parents feel :
He knows our feeble frame.

2 He knows we are but dust,

Scattered with every breath ;
His anger, like a rising wind,
Can send us swift to death.

3 Our days are as the grass,

Or like the morning flower ;
If one sharp blast sweep o'er the field,
It withers in an hour.

4 But thy compassions, Lord,

To endless years endure ;
And children's children ever find
Thy words of promise sure.

129

Psalm 103. S. M.

OH, bless the Lord, my soul !
His grace to thee proclaim ;
And all that is within me join
To bless his holy name.

2 Oh, bless the Lord, my soul !

His mercies bear in mind ;
Forget not all his benefits :
The Lord to thee is kind.

3 He will not always chide ;

He will with patience wait ;
His wrath is ever slow to rise,
And ready to abate.

4 He pardons all thy sins,

Prolongs thy feeble breath ;
He healeth thy infirmities,
And ransoms thee from death.

The Compassions of God. 147

njS He clothes thee with his love,
Upholds thee with his truth :
Then, like the eagle, he renews
The vigor of thy youth.

3 Then bless His holy name,

Whose grace hath made thee whole ;
Whose loving-kindness crowns thy days :
Oh, bless the Lord, my soul !

luU Psalm 103. 8. H.

/^H, bless the Lord, my soul !

V_7 Let all within me join,

And aid my tongue to blesa his name,

Whose favors arc divine

I Oh, bless the Lord, my sou] !
Nor let his mercies lie
Forgotten in un thankfulness,
And without praises die,

] 'Tis lie forgives thy sins;
Tis he relieves thy pain ;
'Tis he that heals thv Bickft -
And makes thru young again.

I He crowns thy life with love,

When ransomed from the grave:
He that redeemed my soul from hell

Hath sovereign power to -ave.
lo 1 Psalm M. S. ■.

COME, sound his praise abroad,
And hymns of glory Bing:
Jehovah is the sovereign God,

The universal King.

He formed the deeps unknown ;

He gave the seas their bound ;
The watery worlds are all his own,

And all the solid ground.

148 The Compassions of God.

3 Come, worship at his throne,

Come, bow before the Lord :
We are his work, and not our own ;
He formed us by his word.

4 To-day attend his voice,

Nor dare provoke his rod ;
Come, like the people of his choice,
And own your gracious God.

lvjZ Psalm 8. S. 3

OLORD, our heavenly King,
Thy name is all divine ;
Thy glories round the earth are spread,
And o'er the heavens they shine.

2 When to thy works on high

I raise my wondering eyes,
And see the moon, complete in light,
Adorn the darksome skies ;

3 When I survey the stars

And all their shining forms,
Lord, what is man, that worthless thing,
Akin to dust and worms ?

4 Lord, what is worthless man,

That thou shouldst love him so ?
Next to thine angels is he placed,
And lord of all below.

5 How rich thy bounties are !

How wondrous are thy ways !
Of meanest things thy power can frame
A monument of praise.

6 0 Lord, our heavenly King,

Thy name is all divine ;
Thy glories round the earth are spread,
And o'er the heavens they shine.

God: Creator and Benefactor. 149

100 God our Creator and Benefactor. S. M.

MY Maker and my King !
To thee my all I owe;
Thy sovereign bounty is the spring,
Whence all my blessings flow.

2 The creature of thy hand,

On thee alone I live ;
My God, thy benefits demand
More praise than life can give.

3 Lord, what can I impart,

When all is thine before?
Thy love demands a thankful heart;
The gift, alas, how poor !

4 Shall I withhold thy due?

And shall my passions rov<

Lord, form this wretched heart anew,

And fill it with thv love.
it

,Iu4 Psalm 2:5. En tt. 61.

THE Lord my pasture -hall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd's rare;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye;
My noonday walks he .-hall attend,
And all my midnight hours defend.

2 When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountain pant,
To fertile vales and dewy meads,
My weary, wandering steps he leads,
Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
Amid the verdant landscape How.

3 Though in the paths of death I tread,

With gloomy horrors overspread,

My steadfast heart shall fear no ill,

For thou, O Lord, art with me still:

Thy friendly rod shall g^ve me aid,

And guide me through the dreadful shade.

!ro God in Nature.

4 Hough in a bare and rugged way,
Through devious lonely wilds I stray;
Thy bounty shall my wants beguile,
The ban-en wilderness shall smile,
With sudden greens and herbage crowned
And streams shall murmur all around.

135 Psalm 74: 16, 17. £,. M. 61

rnilOU art, O God, the life and light
-JL Of all this wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,

Are but reflections caught from thee;
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine.

2 When day, with farewell beam, delays

Among the opening clouds of even,
And we can almost think we gaze

Through opening vistas into heaven,
Those hues that mark the sun's decline,
So soft, so radiant, Lord, are thine.

3 When night, with wings of starry gloom,

O'ershadows all the earth and skies,
Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume

Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes,
That sacred gloom, those fires divine,
So grand, so countless, Lord, are thine.

4 When youthful spring around us breathes,

Thy spirit ^varms her fragrant sigh ;
And every flower that summer wreathes

is born beneath thy kindling eye;
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine.

lOU Psalm 89. €. >I.

WITH reverence let the saints appear,
And bow before the Lord;
His high commands with reverence hear,
And tremble at his word.

God's Almighty Power. 15 1

2 Great God ! how high thy glories rise ;

How bright thine armies shine!
Where is the power with thee that vies,
Or truth compared to thine!

3 The northern pole, and southern, rest

On thy supporting hand ;
Darkness and day, from east to west,
Move round at thy command.

4 Thy words the raging winds control,

And rule the boisterous deep;
Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll,
The rolling billows sleep.

Psalm 77: 11-14. CM.

137

I SING th' almighty power of God,
That made the mountains rise,
That spread the flowing seas abroad,
And built the lofty skies.

2 I sing the wisdom that ordained

The sun to rule the day ;
The moon shines full at his command,
And all the stars obey.

3 I sing the goodness of the Lord,

That filled the earth with food ;
He formed the creatures with his word,
And then pronounced them good.

4 Lord, how thy wonders are displayed,

Where'er I turn mine eye;
If I survey the ground I tread,
Or gaze upon the sky !

5 There's not a plant or flower below

But makes thy glories known ;
And clouds arise and tempests blow
Bv order from thy throne.

I

j 52 Calls to Worship God.

6 Creatures that borrow life from thee
Are subject to thy care:
There's not a place where we can flee,
But God is present there.

loO The Power of God. CM.

THE Lord, our God, is full of might,
The winds obey his will ;
He speaks, and in his heavenly height,
The rolling sun stands still.

2 Rebel, ye waves, and o'er the land

With threatening aspect roar;
The Lord uplifts his awful hand,
And chains you to the shore.

3 Howl, winds of night, your force combine;

Without his high behest,
Ye shall not, in the mountain-pine,
Disturb the sparrow's nest.

4 His voice sublime is heard afar,

In distant peals it dies ;
He yokes the whirlwind to his car,
And sweeps the howling skies.

5 Ye nations, bend, — in reverence bend ;

Ye monarchs, wait his nod,
And bid the choral song ascend
To celebrate your God.

iOO Call to Worship. 10s «fc lis.

YE servants of God, your Master proclaim,
And publish abroad his wonderful name ;
The name all victorious of Jesus extol;
His kingdom is glorious, he rules over all.

2 God ruleth on high, almighty to save;
And still he is nigh, — his presence we have;
The great congregation his triumph shall sing,
Ascribing salvation to Jesus our King.

Call to Worship God. 1 53

3 Salvation to God, who sits on the throne,
Let all cry aloud, and honor the Son;
The prai.ses of Jesus the angels proclaim,
Fall down on their faces and worship the

Lamb.

4 Then let us adore, and give him his right,
All glory and power, and wisdom and might;
All honor and blessing, with angels above,
And thanks never ceasing, and infinite love.

14U Call to Worship. IO* A 11*.

OH, worship the King, all glorious above;
Oh, gratefully sing his power and his love!
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.

2 Oh, tell of his might, oh, sing of his grace,

Whose robe i> the light, whose eailopv, >j feCC I

His chariots of wrath the deep thunder-elouds

form, [storm.

And dark is his path on the wings of the

3 Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite!

It breathe- in the air, it shines in the light,

It streams from the hills, it descends to t ho
plains,

And sweetly distils in the dew and the rains.

4 Frail children of dust, and !'*•• ble as {Vail,
In thee do We trust, nor find thee to fail;
Thy mercies how tender! how firm to the end!
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.

141 Praise to Jcliovuli. 8* Sc 7s.

PRAISE to thee, thou great Creator!
Praise to thee from every tongue:
Join, my soul, with every creature,
Join the universal song.

I Father, Source of all compassion,
Pure, unbounded grace is thine:

i 54 God's Love.

Hail the God of our salvation!
Praise him for his love divine.

3 For ton thousand blessings given,

For the hope of future joy,
Sound his praise through earth and heaven,
Sound Jehovah's praise on high.

4 Joyfully on earth adore him,

Till in heaven our song we raise;

There, enraptured, fall before him,

Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

142 The Grace of God. 8s «fc 7s. I

LORD, with glowing heart I'd praise thee|
For the bliss thy love bestows;
For the pardoning grace that saves me,
And the peace that from it flows.

2 Help, O God, my weak endeavor;

This dull soul to rapture raise;
Thou must light the flame, or never
Can my love be warmed to praise.

3 Praise, my soul, the God that sought thee,

Wretched wanderer, far astray ;
Found thee lost, and kindly brought thee
From the paths of death away.

4 Praise, with love's devoutest feeling,

Him, who saw thy guilt-born fear,
And, the light of hope revealing,
Bade the blood-stained cross appear.

5 Lord, this bosom's ardent feeling

Vainly would my lips express:
Low before thy footstool kneeling,
Deign thy suppliant's prayer to bless ;

6 Let thy grace, my soul's chief treasure,

Love's pure flame within me raise;
And, since words can never measure,
Let my life show forth thy praise.

God: His Wisdom and Love, 155

14o 1 Jolin 4:8. 8s «fe 7s,

GOD is love; his mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss he wakes, and woe he lightens;
God is wisdom, God is love.

2 Chance and change are busy ever;

Man decays, and ages move:
But his mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love.

3 E'en the hour that darkest seemeth

Will his changeless goodness prove ;
From the gloom his brightness streameth;
God is wisdom, God is love.

4 He with earthly cares entwineth

Hope and comfort from above:
Everywhere his glory shineth;
God is wisdom, God is love.

A L A 7s. Double.

144 Psalm 136.

LET us with a joyful mind
Praise the Lord, for he is kind,
For his mercies shall endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.
Let us sound his name abroad,
For of gods he is the God
Who by wisdom did create
Heaven's expanse and all its state ;

2 Did the solid earth ordain
How to rise above the main ;
Who, by his commanding might,
Filled the new-made world with light ;
Caused the golden-tressed sun

All the clay his course to run :
And the moon to shine by night,
'Mid her spangled sisters bright.

3 All his creatures God doth feed,
His full hand supplies their need ;

L(

156 God our All in All

Let us therefore warble forth
His high majesty and worth.
He his mansion hath on high,
'Bove the reach of mortal eye ;
And his mercies shall endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.

14:0 Psalm 73: 25. 7s. Doable.

ORD of earth ! thy forming hand
Well this beauteous frame hath
planned,
Woods that wave, and hills that tower,
Ocean rolling in his power.
Lord of heaven ! beyond our sight
Rolls a world of purer light ;
There in love's unclouded reign
Parted hands shall clasp again.

2 Oh, that world is passing fair,
Yet if thou wert absent there,
What were all its joys to me ?
Whom have I in heaven but thee ?
Lord of earth and heaven ! my breast
Seeks in thee its only rest ;

I was lost ; thy accents mild
Homeward lured thy wandering child.

3 I was blind ; thy healing ray
Charmed the long eclipse away ;
Source of every joy I know,
Solace of my every woe !

Oh, if once thy smile divine
Ceased upon my soul to shine,
What were earth or heaven to me?
Whom have I in each but thee ?

140 Hymn of Praise. 7b.

SWEET the time, exceeding sweet !
When the saints together meet,
When the Saviour is the theme,
When they joy to sing of him.

God : Praise and Prayer. 1 57

2 Sing we, then, eternal love,
Such as did the Father move:
He beheld the world undone,
Loved the world, and gave his Son.

3 Sing the Son's amazing love ;
How he left the realms above,
Took our nature and our place,
Lived and died to save our race.

4 Sing we, too, the Spirit's love ;
With our stubborn hearts he strove,
Filled our minds with grief and fear,
Brought the precious Saviour near.

5 Sweet the place, exceeding >weet,
Where the saints in glory m<
Where the Saviour's still the theme,
Where they see and >\\\[s of him.

14/ 1 (or. 3: I«. 7».

COME, divine and peaceful Guest,
Enter each devoted breast ;
Holy Ghost, <>ur hearts inspire,

Kindle there tie' gOSpd lire.

2 Bid our sin and sorrow

Fill us with thy heavenly peace;

Joy divine we then shall prove,
Light of truth, and fire «>t" love.

14:0 Blessing Invoked. 7».

TLTIGHTY Om\ before whose face
-1VL Wisdom had her glorious seat,
When the orbs that people space
Sprang to birth beneath thy feet!

2 Source of truth, whose rays alone
Light the mighty world of mind !
God of love, who from thy throne
Kindly watchest all mankind !

158 God's Omnipresence.

3 Shed on those who in thy name

Teach the way of truth and right,
Shed that love's undying flame,
Shed that wisdom's guiding light.

149 1 Cor. 2: 4. 7s.

FATHEK, bless thy word to all,
Quick and powerful let it prove ;
Oh, may sinners hear thy call,
Let thy people grow in love.

2 Thine own gracious message bless,

Follow it with power divine:
Give the gospel great success,
Thine the work, the glory thine.

3 Father, bid the world rejoice,

Send, oh, send thy truth abroad ;
Let the nations hear thy voice,
Hear it and return to God.

4 Sing wre to our God above

Praise eternal as his love :
Praise him, all ye heavenly host,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

10U Omnipresence— Psalm 84 : 11. L,. M.

LORD of all being, throned afar,
Thy glory flames from sun and star ;
Centre and soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near !

2 Sun of our life, thy quickening ray
Sheds on our path the glow of day ;
Star of our hope, thy softened light
Cheers the long watches of the night.

3 Our midnight is thy smile withdrawn ;
Our noontide is thy gracious dawn ;
Our rainbow arch thy mercy's. sign;
All, save the clouds of sin, are. thine !

God's Omniscience. 159

Lord of all life, below, above,

Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love,

Before thy ever-blazing throne

We ask no lustre of our own.

Grant us thy truth, to make us free,
And kindling hearts that burn for thee,
Till all thy living altars claim
One holy light, one heavenly flame !

51 Psalm 103. !,.*!.

BLESS, O my soul ! the living God :
( Jail home thy thoughts that rove abroad:
Let all the powers within me join
In work and worship SO divine

' Bless, 0 my soul ! the God of grace:
His favors claim thy highest praise;
Why should the wonders he hath wrought

Be lost in silence, and forgot J

i 'Tis he, my soul, that Bent his Bon

To die for crimes which thou hast done;
I [e owns the ransom, and forgii

The hourly follies of our li\

: Let every land his power confess f

arth adore his grace :

My heart and tongue with rapture join,
In work and worship BO divine.

OZ The nll-sooin- <;o<l— I'ssilm 1.19. I,. JI.

LORD, thou hast searched and seen me
through :
Thine eye commands, with piercing view,
My rising and my resting hours,
My heart and flesh with all their pow

\ My thoughts, before they are my own,
Are to my God distinctly known ;
He knows the words I mean to speak,
Ere from my opening lips they break.

160 Providence of God.

3 Within thy circling power I stand ;
On every side I find thy hand :
Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,

I am surrounded still with God.

4 How awful is thy searching eye !

Thy knowledge, oh, howT deep ! how7 high!
My soul, with' all the powers I boast
Is in the boundless prospect lost,

5 Oh, may these thoughts possess my breast,
Where'er I rove, where'er I rest !

Nor let my weaker passions dare
Consent to sin, for God is there.

lOO The Mystery of Providence. CM.

GOD moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform ;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

2 Deep in unfathomable mines

Of never-failing skill,
He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.

3 Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take ;

The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.

4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,

But trust him for his grace ;
Behind a frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face.

5 His purposes will ripen fast,

Unfolding every hour ;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

6 Blind unbelief is sure to err,

And scan his work in vain;

Eternity of God. 1 6 1

God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.

154 Psalm 121. C. M .

TO heaven I lift my waiting eyes :
There all my hopes are laid ;
The Lord that built the earth and skies
Is my perpetual aid.

2 Their steadfast feet shall never fall

Whom he designs to keep ;
His ear attends the softest call,
His eyes can never sleep.

3 Israel, rejoice, and rest secure;

Thy keeper is the Lord :
His wakeful eyes employ his power
For thine eternal guard.

4 He guards thy soul, he keeps thy breath,

Where thickest dangers come;
Go and return, secure from death,
Till God commands thee home.

155 UiuVs Ktcrnlty. C. JI.

GREAT God! how infinite art thou !
What worthless worms are we!

Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,

Ere seas or stars were made ;
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.

3 Eternity, with all its years,

Stands present in thy view ;
To thee there's nothing old appears ;
Great God ! there's nothing new.

4 Our lives through various scenes are drawn,

And vexed with trifling cares ;
11

1 62 The Incarnation.

While thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

5 Great God ! how infinite art thou !
What worthless worms are we !
Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

1 5 6 Birth of Christ. Ii. M.

ALL praise to thee, eternal Lord !
Clothed in a garb of flesh and blood;
Choosing a manger for thy throne,
While worlds on worlds are thine alone.

2 Once did the skies before thee bow ;
A virgin's arms contain thee now ;
Angels, who did in thee rejoice,
Now listen for thine infant voice.

3 A little child, thou art our guest,
That weary ones in thee may rest;
Forlorn and lowly is thy birth,

That we may rise to heaven from earth.

4 Thou comest in the darksome night
To make us children of the light, —
To make us, in the realms divine,
Like thine own angels round thee shine;

5 All this for us thy love hath done ;
By this to thee our love is won :
For this we tune our cheerful lays,
And shout our thanks in ceaseless praise.

10 I liiilie 2: 11. Ii.I

\\THEN Jordan hushed his waters still,
▼ ▼ And silence slept on Zion's hill;

When Bethlehem's shepherds through the
night

Watched o'er their flocks by starry light:

2 Hark! from the midnight hills around,
A voice of more than mortal sound,

The Incarnation. 163

In distant hallelujahs stole

"Wild murmuring o'er the raptured soul.

3 On wheels of light, on wings of flame,
The glorious hosts of angels came ;

And while they struck their harps and sung,
High heaven with songs of triumph rung: — ■

4 " O Zion ! lift thy raptured eye,
The long-expected hour is nigh :
Renewed, creation smiles again,
The Prince of Salem comes to reign.

5 "He comes to cheer the trembling heart,
Bid Satan and his host depart;

Again the Day-star gilds the gloom,
Again the bowers of Eden bloom."

lOO Praise to Christ. L. HL

HVTOW for a tune of lofty praise,
-^ To great Jehovah's equal Son!
Awake, my voice, in heavenly lays,
Tell the loud wonders he hath done.

2 Sing how he left the worlds of light,

And the bright robes he wore above;
How swift and joyful was the flight,
On wings of everlasting love.

3 Deep in the shades of gloomy death,

Th' almighty Captive prisoner lay;
Th' almighty Captive left the earth,
And rose to everlasting day.

4 Lift up your eyes, ye sons of light,

Up to his throne of shining grace;
See wThat immortal glories sit

Round the sweet beauties of his face.

159 Luke 2: 13. CM.

IT came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,

1 64 Song of the Angels.

From angels bending near the earth

To touch their harps of gold;
"Peace to the earth, good-will to man,

From heaven's all-gracious King:"
The earth in solemn stillness lay,

To hear the angels sing.

2 Still through the cloven skies they come,

With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still celestial music floats

O'er all the weary world ;
Above its sad and lowly plains

They bend on heavenly wing,
And ever, o'er its Babel sounds,

The blessed angels sing.

3 O ye, beneath life's crushing load,

Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing wTay,

With painful steps and slow,
Look up ! for glad and golden hours

Come swiftly on the wing ;
Oh, rest beside the weary road,

And hear the angels sing!

4 For lo! the days are hastening on,

By prophet-bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years

Comes round the age of gold!
When peace shall over all the earth

Its final splendors fling,
And the whole world send back the song

Which now the angels sing!

lUU Luke 2. CM.

CALM, on the listening ear of night,
Come heaven's melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.

2 Celestial choirs, from courts above,
'Mid sacred glories there;

The Advent of Christ. 1 65

And angels, with their sparkling lyres,
Make music on the air.

3 The answering hills of Palestine

Send back the glad reply;
And greet from all their holy heights,
The dayspring from on high.

4 O'er the blue depths of Galilee

There comes a holier calm;
And Sharon waves, in solemn praise,
Her silent groves of palm.

5 "Glory to God!" the sounding skies

Loud with their anthems ring;
" Peace to the earth — good-will to men,
From heaven's eternal King."

6 Light on thy hills, Jerusalem!

The Saviour now is born !
And bright on Bethlehem's joyous plains
Breaks the first Christmas morn.

101 Luke 2. CM.

HARK, the glad sound! theSavioureomes,
The Saviour promised long;
Let every heart prepare a throne,
And every voice a song.

2 He comes, the prisoner to release,

In Satan's bondage held;
The gates of brass before him burst,
The iron fetters yield.

3 He comes, from thickest films of vice

To clear the mental ray,
And, on the eyes long closed in night,
To pour celestial day.

4 He comes, the broken heart to bind,

The bleeding soul to cure,
And, with the treasures of his grace,
Enrich the humble poor.

1 66 The Advent of Christ.

5 Our glad hosannas, Prince of peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim,
And heaven's eternal arches ring
With thy beloved name.

162 Epli. 4: 8. CM.

HOSANNA to the Prince of light,
That clothed himself in clay;
Entered the iron gates of death,
And tore the bars away.

2 See how the Conqueror mounts aloft,

And to his Father flies,
With scars of honor in his flesh,
And triumph in his eyes.

3 There our exalted Saviour reigns,

And scatters blessings down;
Our Jesus fills the middle seat
Of the celestial throne.

4 Raise your devotion, mortal tongues,

To reach his bless5 d abode;
Sweet be the accents of your songs
To our incarnate God.

5 Bright angels, strike your loudest strings,

Your sweetest voices raise;
Let heaven, and all created things,
Sound our Immanuel's praise.

lUO Psalm 98. CM.

JOY to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King ;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing.

2 Joy to the earth ! the Saviour reigns ;
Let men their songs employ ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

Christ: the Star in the East. 167

J No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground ;
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

1 He rules the world with truth and grace,

And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousn
And wonders of his love.

164 The Star in the East. lis «fc 10s.

BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the
morning!
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine
aid;
Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid

2 Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are Bhining;
Low lies his head with the beasts of the

stall:
Angels adore him, in slumber reclining,
Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all!

3 Bay, shall we yield him, in costly devotion,

Odors of Edom, and offerings divine?
Gems of the mountain, and pearls of theoeean,
Myrrh from the forest, or gold from the
mine?

4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation,
Vainly with gold would his favors aecure:

Richer, by far, is the heart'- adoration;

Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning !

Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine
aid;
Star of the East, the horizon adorning,

Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

1 68 The Glad Tidings. Trust in God.

HARK! what celestial sounds,
What music fills the air!
Soft warbling to the morn,
It strikes the ravished ear:
Now all is still ; now wild it floats
In tuneful notes, loud, sweet, and shrill.

2 Th' angelic hosts descend

With harmony divine;
See how from heaven they bend,
And in full chorus join:
"Fear not," they say; "great joy we bring;
Jesus your King is born to-day f"

3 He comes, your souls to save

From death's eternal gloom;
To realms of bliss and light
He lifts you from the tomb:
Your voices raise, with sons of light;
Your songs unite of endless praise.

4 "Glory to God on high!"

Ye mortals, spread the sound,
And let your raptures fly
To earth's remotest bound ;
For peace on earth, from God in heaven,
To man is given at Jesus' birth.

*00 Psalm 121. h. M.

UPWARD I lift mine eyes ;
From God is all my aid,
The God that built the skies,
And earth and nature made:
God is the tower to which I fly ;
His grace is nigh in every hour!

2 My feet shall never slide,
u Nor fall in fatal snares,
Since God, my guard and guide,
Defends me from my fears :

Jesus Christ: Born in Bethlehem . 169

Those wakeful eves that never sleep,
Shall Israel keep when dangers rise.

3 Xo burning heats by day,

Nor blasts of evening air,
Shall take my health away,
If God be with me there:
Thou art my Bun, and thou my shade,
To guard my head by night or noon.

4 Hast thou not given thy word

To save my soul from death?
And I can trust my Lord

To keep my mortal breath:
I'll go and come, nor fear to die,
Till from on high thou call me home.

H

ID/ Luke 2. 7».

A KI\ ! the herald angels sing,
( rlory to the new-born King I

Peace on earth, and m- rcy mild ;

i and sinnen re :onciied."

2 Joyful, all ye nations, ■
Join the triumphs of the ski
With the angelic hosts proclaim,
u ( !hris1 is born in Bethlehem."

3 Mild he lays his glory by;

Born that man no more may die;

B tn to raise the Bons of earth ;

Born to give them second birth.

4 Hail, the heaven-born Trine'' of peace!
Hail, the Sun of righteousm

Light and lite to all he brings

Risen with healing in his wii

5 Let us then with angels >ing,

44 Glory to the new-born King! —
Peace on earth, and mercy mild;
(Jod and sinners reconciled!"'

170 Jesus Christ: Born in Bethlehem.

1fift Example of the "Wise Men from the
1UO East." 7a

A S with gladness, men of old
-£*- I)id the guiding star behold;
As with joy they hailed its light,
Leading onward, beaming bright;
So, most gracious Lord, may we
Evermore be led by thee.

2 As with joyful step they sped
To that lowly manger-bed;
There to bend the knee before
Him whom earth and heaven adore;
So may we, with willing feet,

Ever seek thy mercy-seat.

3 As they offered gifts most rare,
At that manger rude and bare;
So may we, with holy joy,
Pure and free from sin's 'alloy,
All our costliest treasures bring
Unto thee, O Christ our King!

4 Holy Jesus, every day
Keep us in the narrow way;

And when earthly things are past,
Bring our ransomed souls at last,
Where they need no star to guide,
Where no clouds thy glory hide.

IRQ

TTAEK! what mean those holy voices,
■*--*- bweetly sounding through the skies?
Lo, th angelic host rejoices;
Heavenly hallelujahs rise.

2 Hear them tell the wondrous story,
Hear them chant in hymns of joy:
Glory in the highest, glory!
Glory be to God most high!

The Birth of Christ. 171

3 Peace on earth, good-will from heaven,

Reaching far as man is found ;
Souls redeemed, and sins forgiven;
Loud our golden harps shall sound.

4 Christ is born, the Great Anointed;

Heaven and earth his praises sing;
Oh, receive whom God appointed,
For your Prophet, Priest, and King.

5 Haste, ye mortals, to adore him;

Learn his Dame, and taste his joy j
Till in heaven ye sing before him,

" Glory be to God most high."

/U Praise for a Saviour. Ss A' 7s.

IET our >f praise ascendiu

-^ Rise to thee, <> God most high;
While before thee, humbly b mding,
Glory to thy name we cry,

2 With the shepherds in the story,

Let our hearts to Bethlehem

Where the Lord of lit'*' and glory,
In a manger lieth low.

3 With the angels, tilled with wonder,

Let us praise him in the height!
With the blessed Virgin ponder
All love's mystery and might.

4 Age to age thy glory beareth

On the stream of time abroad;
Race to race thy name de lareth,
Son of Mary! Son or' God!

5 Heaven exults and earth rejoices

In the work that thou hast wrought;
Lord, attune our trembling voices,
Let us praise thee as we ought.

1 72 The Birth of Christ.

1/1 Lnlce 2. 8s «ft 1 \

TTAIL the night, all hail the morn,
-*-X When the Prince of peace was bon
When, amid the wakeful fold,
Tidings good the angels told.

2 Now our solemn chant we raise
Duly to the Saviour's praise;
Now with carol hymns we bless
Christ the Lord, our Kighteousness.

3 While resounds the joyful cry,
"Glory be to God on high,
Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Gladly we respond, "Amen!"

4 Thus we greet this holy day,
Pouring forth our festive lav ;
Thus we tell, with saintly mirth,
Of Immanuel's wondrous birth.

179

ki u Our Example. i,. jf#

IVrY dear Redeemer, and my Lord,
£*-*- I read my duty in thy word;
But m thy life the law appears,
Drawn out in living characters.

2 Such was thy truth, and such thy zeal,
buch deference to thy Father's will,
buch love, and meekness so divine,

I would transcribe and make them mine.

3 Cold mountains and the midnight air
Witnessed the fervor of thy prayer;
ihe desert thy temptations knew,

lny conflict and thy victory too.

4 Be thou my pattern; make me bear
More of thy gracious image here;

lhen God, the Judge, shall own my name
Among the followers of the Lamb.

73

Christ's Glory and Goodness. 173

Psalm 45. L.. M.

^VTOW he my heart inspired to sing
±y The glories of my Saviour King:
Jesus, the Lord, how heavenly fair
J lis form! how bright his beauties are!

2 O'er till tl of human race
He shines with a

Love from hi- Lips divinely Sows,
And blessings ail his state com]

3 Thy throne, () God, forever stands!
( rrace is the scepl re in thy hands:

Thy laws and h just and right;

Justice and grace are I by delight

4 God, thine own God, has richly shed
I [is oil of gladness on thy head ;
And with his Bacred Spirit b

I [is first-born £ it

IH Ttio Ilciiflirciicr of Christ. I., M.

WHEN, like a Btranger on our sphere,
The low ly Jesus wandered h<
Where'er he went, affliction fled,

And siekn; 1 her Bunting head.

2 The eye that rolled in irksome night
Beheld his face, — for < rod is light !
The opening ear, the loosen* d tongue,
His precepts heard, his praises Bung.

3 With bounding Bteps the halt and lame,
To hail their great Deliverer came;

O'er the eold grave he bowed hifl head.

He spake the word, and raised the dead.

4 Despairing madness, dark and wild,
In his inspiring presence smiled;

The storm of h«>rror ceased to roll,

And reason lightened through the soul.

0'

174 Praise of Christ.

5 Through paths of loving-kindness led,
Where Jesus triumphed we would tread;
To all, with willing hands, dispense
The gifts of our benevolence.

1/0 Praise of Christ. C. 1

|H ! for a shout of sacred joy
To God, the sovereign King ;
Let every land their tongues employ,
And hymns of triumph sing.

2 Jesus, our God, ascends on high ;

His heavenly guards around
Attend him rising through the sky,
With trumpets' joyful sound.

3 While angels shout and praise their King

Let mortals learn their strains ;
Let all the earth his honor sing ; —
O'er all the earth he reigns.

4 Rehearse his praise with awe profound ;

Let knowledge lead the song ;
Nor mock him with a solemn sound
Upon a thoughtless tongue.

5 In Israel stood his ancient throne : —

He loved that chosen race ;
But now he calls the world his own ;
The heathen taste his grace.

l/b Mark 10: 32. C. 51.

THE Saviour ! — what a noble flame
Was kindled in his breast,
When, hasting to Jerusalem,
He marched before the rest !

2 Good-will to men, and zeal for God,
His every thought engross ;
He longs to be baptized with blood ;
He pants to reach the cross.

The Lamb of God, 1 75

3 With all his sufferings full in view,

And woes to us unknown,
Forth to the task his spirit flew :
'Twas love that urged him on.

4 Lord, we return thee what we can ;

Our hearts shall sound abroad
Salvation to the dying Man,
And to the rising God !

5 And while thy bleeding glories here

Engage our wondering eyes,
We learn our lighter cross to bear,
And hasten to the skies.

r

ill Psalm 22. C. M.

N deep distress our Saviour prayed
With mighty cries and tears ;
God heard him in that hour of dread,
And chased away his fears.

2 Great was the victory of his death,

His throne exalted high :
And all the kindreds of the earth
Shall worship, or shall die.

3 A numerous offspring must arise

From his expiring groans ;
They shall be reckoned in his eyes
For daughters and for sons.

4 The meek and humble souls shall see

His table richly spread ;
And all that seek the Lord shall be
With joys immortal fed.

178

P. SI.

BEHOLD the Lamb of God !
O thou for sinners slain,
Let it not be in vain
That thou hast died :

176 Christ Crucified.

Thee for my Saviour let me take,
My only refuge let me make
Thy pierced side.

2 Behold the Lamb of God !
Into the sacred flood

Of thy most precious blood

My soul I cast :
Wash me, and make me clean within,
And keep me pure from every sin,

Till life be past.

3 Behold the Lamb of God !
All hail, incarnate Word,
Thou everlasting Lord,

Saviour most blest !
Fill us with love that never faints,
Grant us, with all thy blessed saints,

Eternal rest.

4 Behold the Lamb of God !
Now at the Father's side
Is he, the Crucified,

Who bore our pains.
The glory of adoring throngs,
The themeof all their ceaseless songs,

The Saviour reigns !

5 Behold the Lamb of God !
Worthy is he alone,
That sitteth on the throne

Of God above ;
One with the Ancient of all days,
One with the Comforter in praise,

All light and love !

1 7Q " Wounded for our Transgressions.*"

±IVJ 8sA7s. 61.

1\JOW, my soul, thy voice upraising,
±* Tell in sweet and mournful strain,
How the Crucified, enduring

Grief and wounds and dying pain,

Christ our Sacrifice. 177

Freely of his love was offered,
Sinless, was for sinners slain.

2 See ! his hands and feet are fastened ;

So he makes his people free !
Not a wound whence blood is flowing

But a fount of grace shall be:
Yea, the very nails which nail him

Nail us, also, to the tree !

3 Through his heart the spear is piercing,

Though his foes have seen him die ;
Blood and water thence are streaming

In a tide of mystery ;
Water from our guilt to cleanse us,

Blood to win us crowns on high.

4 Jesus, may those precious fountains

Life to thirsting souls afford :
Let them be our present healing,

And at length our great reward :
So a ransomed world shall ever

Praise thee, its redeeming Lord.

lOU " Redeemed by his Blood. ^ 8s A 7s. 6 1.

E, who once in righteous vengeance
Whelmed the world beneath the flood,
Once again in mercy cleansed it

With his own most precious blood ;
Coming from his throne on high
On the painful cross to die.

2 Oh, the wisdom of th' Eternal !

Oh, the depth of love divine !
Oh, the sweetness of that mercy

Which in Jesus Christ did shine !
We were sinners doomed to die ;
Jesus paid the penalty.

3 When before the Judge we tremble,

Conscious of his broken laws,
12

H1

1 78 Christ's Agony,

May the blood of his atonement

Cry aloud, and plead our cause,
Bid our guilty terrors cease,
Be our pardon and our peace.

4 Prince and author of salvation,

Lord of majesty supreme,

Jesus, praise to thee be given

By the world thou didst redeem ;
Glory to the Father be,
And the Spirit, One with thee !

101 Gal. 6:14. JL. Jtt.

WHEN I survey the wondorus cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,

Save in the death of Christ my God ;
All ^ vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.

3 See, from his head, his hands, his feet,

Sorrow and love flow mingled down :
Lid e'er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown ?

4 Were the whole realm of nature mine,

That were a present far too small ;
Love so amazing, so divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

lO^ Inke 22 : 43. ]L. M.

THIS midnight ; and on Olive's brow
^ J- The star is dimmed that lately shone :
Tis midnight ; in the garden now
The suffering Saviour prays alone.

2 Tis midnight, and from all removed,
The Saviour wrestles lone with fears ;

Christ's Sacrifice. 179

E'en that disciple whom he loved

Heeds not his Master's grief and tears.

Tis midnight ; and for others' guilt
The Man of sorrows weeps in blood ;

Yet he that hath in anguish knelt
Is not forsaken by his God.

4 'Tis midnight; and from ether-plains
Is borne the BODg that angels know;
Unheard by mortals are the .-trains
That sweetly soothe the Saviour's woe.

loO Isaiah r>:{: 1-6. LK

JESUS, whom angel hostfl adore,
Became a man 1 for me ;

In love, though rich, becoming poor,
That I through him enriched might be.

2 Though Lord of all, above, below,

lb- wcm to ( Hivet for 1
There drank my cup of wrath and woe,
when bleeding in Gethsemana

3 The ever-1 rod

Weni up to ( lalvary for me ;
There paid my debt, there bore my load,
In his own body on the I

4 Jesus, whose dwelling is the Bki

Went down into the grave lor me;
There overcame my enemies,

There won tin- glorious victory.

5 'Tis finished all : the veil is rent,

The welcome sure, the access tree;
Now then we leave our banishment,
O Father, to return to thee!

184

John 19: 30. L. M.

THIS finished ! so the Saviour cried,
-L And meekly bowed his head and died.

180 Conte?nplation of Christ's Sacrifice.

Tis finished ! yes, the race is run,
The battle fought, the victory won.

2 Tis finished ! this thy dying groan
Shall sins of every kind atone ;
Millions shall be redeemed from death
By this thy last expiring breath.

3 Tis finished ! Heaven is reconciled,
And all the powers of darkness spoiled ;
Peace, love, and happiness again
Return, and dwell with sinful men.

4 Tis finished ! let the joyful sound
Be heard through all the nations round :
Tis finished ! let the echo fly
Through heaven and hell, through earth

and sky.

lOb Christ's Dying' I^ove. t. M.

LORD, wThen my thoughts delighted rove
Amid the wonders of thy love,
Sweet hope revives my drooping heart,
And bids intruding fears depart.

2 The Lord of life, the Saviour, dies
For mortal crimes a sacrifice :
What love, what mercy, how divine !
Jesus, and can I call thee mine ?

3 Be all my heart and all my days
Devoted to my Saviour's praise ;
And let my glad obedience prove
How much I owe, how much I love.

lOb 1 Jolin 2:1. I.. M.

HE lives ! the great Redeemer lives !
What joy the blest assurance gives !
And now before his Father, God,
Pleads the full merit of his blood.

2 Repeated crimes awake our fears,

And justice armed with frowns appears ;

Christ Risen and Victorious. 181

But in the Saviour's lovely face
Sweet mercy smiles, and all is peace.

3 In every dark, distressful hour,
When sin and Satan join their power,
Let this dear hope repel the dart,
That Jesus bears us on his heart.

4 Great Advocate, Almighty Friend !
On him our humble hopes depend ;
Our cause can never, never fail,
For Jesus pleads, and must prevail.

10/ TIjo Gtom. IteM.

OH, the sweet wonder- of that CT
Where my I i r loved and died!

Her noblest life my spirit dn

From his dear wounds and bleeding side.

»

2 I would forever Bp tab bis name

In sounds to mortal ears unknown ;
With angels join to praise the Lamb,
And worship at his Father's throne.

PRAISE God, from whom all blessings
flow,

Praise him, all creatures lure b. -low-
Praise him above, ye heavenly h<>-t,

Praise Father, Sou, and Holy Gil

lOO I'salni 2 1.

OUB Lord i< risen from the dead ;
Our Jesus is gone up on high ;

The powers of hell are captive led,
Dragged to the portals of the sky.

2 There his triumphal chariot wait-.

And angels chant the solemn lay : —
"Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates,
Ye everlasting doors, give way !"

1 82 Christ Risen and Victorious.

3 Loose all your bars of massy light,

And wide unfold th' ethereal scene ;
He claims these mansions as his right ;
Receive the King of glory in.

4 Who is the King of glory, who ?

The Lord that all his foes o'ercame ;
That sin and death and hell o'erthrew ;
And Jesus is the conqueror's name.

5 Lo ! his triumphal chariot waits,

And angels chant the solemn lay : —
" Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates,
Ye everlasting doors, give way !"

XOO Christ Victorious.

HAIL to the Prince of life and peace,
Who holds the keys of death and hell !
The spacious world unseen is his,

And sovereign power becomes him well.

2 In shame and anguish once he died ;

But now he lives for evermore :

Bow down, ye saints around his seat,

And, all ye angel bands, adore.

3 So live forever, glorious Lord,

To crush thy foes, and guard thy friends ;
While all thy chosen tribes rejoice
That thy dominion never ends.

4 Forever reign, victorious King !

Wide through the earth thy name be
known,
And call my longing soul to sing
Sublimer anthems near thy throne.

Luke 24 : 26.

rE dies ! the Friend of sinners dies !
Lo! Salem's daughters weep around:
A solemn darkness veils the skies ;

A sudden trembling shakes the ground.

H1

The Resurrection of Christ. 183

2 Here's love and grief beyond degree ;

The Lord of glory dies for men !
But, lo ! what sudden joys Ave see, —
Jesus the dead revives again !

3 The rising God forsakes the tomb ;

Up to his Father's court he flies ;
Cherubic legions guard him home,
And shout him welcome to the skies.

4 Break off your tears, ye saints, and tell

How high our great Deliverer reigns;
Sing how he spoiled the hosts of hell,
And led the tyrant death in chains.

5 Say, "Live forever, glorious King,

Born to redeem, and strong to >ave!

Where now, () death, where is thy BtingT

And where thy vict'ry, boasting ( Ira?

191

1 (or. 15: 20. 7s.

CHRIST, the Lord, is risen to-day,
Our triumphant holy day :
lie endured the dross and grave,
Sinners to redeem and save.

2 Lo ! he rises, mighty King!

Where, (> Death ! is now thy sting?
Lo ! lie claims his native sky I
Grave! where is thy victory?

3 Sinners, see your ransom paid,
Peace with God forever made:
With your risen Saviour rise;

Claim with him the purchased skies.

4 Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day,
Our triumphant holy day ;
Loud the song of victory raise ;
Shout the great Redeemer's praise.

184 The Resurrectioyi of Christ.

M<

V3L Matt. 28: 6. 7s,

"ORNLSTG breaks upon the tomb ;
Jesus scatters all its gloom ;
Day of triumph through the skies,
See the glorious Saviour rise !

2 Now, disciples, dry your tears,
Banish unbelieving fears :
Look on his deserted grave,
Doubt no more his power to save.

3 Ye who are of death afraid,
Triumph in the scattered shade :
Drive your anxious cares away,
See the place where Jesus lay.

XOO JoI>38:7. 7s.

< ONGS of praise the angels sang,

s

Heaven with hallelujahs rang,
When Jehovah's work begun,
When he spake, and it was done.

2 Songs of praise awoke the morn,
When the Prince of peace was born :
Songs of praise arose, when he
Captive led captivity.

3 Heaven and earth must pass away ;
Songs of praise shall crown that day :
God will make new heavens and earth ;
Songs of praise shall hail their birth.

4 Saints below, with heart and voice,
Still in songs of praise rejoice ;
Learning here, by faith and love,
Songs of praise to sing above.

5 Borne upon their latest breath
Songs of praise shall conquer death ;
Then, amid eternal joy,

Songs of praise their powers employ.

Christ glorified, bid present with us. 185
LkJ^t Hymn of the Resnrrection. 7s.

JESUS Christ is risen today, —
Our triumphant holy day, —
Who did once, upon the cross,
Suffer to redeem our loss.

2 Hymns of praise then let us sing
Unto Christ, our heavenly King ;
Who endured the cross and grave,
Sinners to redeem and save.

IC/O John 14: 3. C. 31.

THE golden gates are lifted up,
The doors are opened wide,
The King of glory is gone in
Unto his Father's side

2 Thou art gone up before us, Lord,

To make for us a place,
That we may be where now thou art,
And look upon God'fl face.

3 And ever on thine earthly path

A gleam of glory lit
A light still breaks behind the cloud
That veils thee from our ey

4 Lift up our hearts, lift up our mind3,

Let thy dear grace be given,
That while we tarry here In low,
Our treasure be in heaven !

5 That where thou art, at God's right hand,

Our hope, our love may be ;
Dwell thou in us, that we may dwell
For evermore in thee !

iyb A Present Christ. CM.

(H, say to all men, far and near,

0'

That Christ is risen again !

1 86 Christ risen and reigning.

That Christ is with us, now and here,
And ever shall remain.

2 Now let the mourner grieve no more,

Though his beloved sleep ;
A happier meeting shall restore
Their light to eyes that weep.

3 The way of darkness that he trod,

To heaven, at last, shall come ;
And he who hearkens to Christ's word,
Shall reach his Father's home.

4 Now every heart each noble deed

With new resolve may dare ;
A glorious harvest shall the seed,
In happier regions, bear.

la / Christ Risen and Reigning. C. M.

YE humble souls that seek the Lord,
Chase all your fears away ;
And bow with reverence down, to see
The place where Jesus lay.

2 Thus low the Lord of life wras brought,

Such wonders love can do !
Thus cold in death that bosom lay,
Which throbbed and bled for you*

3 If ye have wept at yonder cross,

And still your sorrows rise,
Stoop down and view the vanquished grave,
Then wipe your weeping eyes.

4 Then dry your tears, and tune your songs,

The Saviour lives again ;
Not all the bolts and bars of death
The Conqueror could detain.

5 High o'er th' angelic band he rears

His once dishonored head ;
And through unnumbered years he reigns
Who dwelt among the dead.

The Risen Saviour. 1 87

lyO God a Sure Defence, CM.

YE humble souls, approach your God
With songs of sacred praise ;
For he is good, supremely good,
And kind are all his ways.

2 All nature owns his guardian care;

In him we live and move ;
But nobler benefits declare
The wonders of his love.

3 He gave his well-beloved Son,

To save our soul- from Bin :
'Tis here he makes his goodness known,
And proves it all divine.

4 To this dear Refuge, Lord, we come,

And here our hope reli
A safe defence, a peaceful home,
When storms of trouble rise,

5 Thine eye beholds, with kind regard,

The souls who trust in thee;
Their humble hope thou wilt reward
With bliss divinely f

6 Great God! to thine almighty love

What honors shall we raise?
Not all the raptured songs above
Can render equal praise.

199 The Risen Saviour. C. >I.

TRIUMPHANT, Christ ascends on

-L The glorious work complete ; [high,
Sin, dea ill, and hell, low vanquished lie,
Beneath his awful i'eet.

2 There, with eternal glory erowned,
The Lord, the Conqueror, reigns ;
His praise the heavenly choirs resound,
In their immortal strains.

I

1 88 The Suffering Saviour Exalted.

3 Amid the splendors of his throne,

Unchanging love appears ;
The names he purchased for his own,
Still on his heart he bears.

4 Oh, the rich depths of love divine!

Of bliss a boundless store :
Dear Saviour, let me call thee mine ;
I cannot wish for more.

5 On thee alone my hope relies ;

Beneath thy cross I fall ;
My Lord, my life, my sacrifice,
My Saviour, and my all.

lXj\J The Suffering Saviour exalted. C. M.

HE, who on earth as man was known,
And bore our sins and pains,
Now, seated on th' eternal throne,
The God of glory reigns.

2 His hands the wheels of nature guide

With an unerring skill ;
And countless worlds, extended wide,
Obey his sovereign will.

3 While harps unnumbered sound his praise

In yonder world above,
His saints on earth admire his ways,
And glory in his love.

4 When troubles, like a burning sun,

Beat heavy on their head,

To this almighty rock they run,

And find a pleasing shade.

5 How glorious he, how happy they,

In such a glorious friend !
Whose love secures them all the way,
And crowns them at the end.

Christ Risen. 189

lOl Rev. 5:6-10. CM.

BEHOLD the glories of the Lamb
Amid his Father's throne :
Prepare new honors for his name,
And songs before unknown.

2 Let elders worship at his feet,

The Church adore around,
With vials full of odors sweet,
And harps of sweeter sound.

3 Now to the Lamb that once was slain

Be endless Meetings paid;

Salvation, glory, joy remain
Forever on thy head.

4 Thou hast redeemed our souls with blood,

Hast set the prisoners fir
Hast made us kings and priests to God,
And we shall reign with thee.

5 The worlds of nature and of grace

Are put beneath thy power;
Then shorten these delaying days,
And bring the promised hour.

)H0 "The Lord is risen iuuVori."

u\JL Luke 2i: S4. H. M.

"mHELord is risen indeed:"

-L NoW is his work performed;
Now is the mighty Captive freed,
And death our foe disarmed.

2 "The Lord is risen indeed :"
The grave has lost its prey ;

With him is risen the ransomed seed
To reign in endless day.

3 " The Lord is risen indeed :"
He lives, to die no more ;

He lives, the sinner's cause to plead,
Whose curse and shame he bore.

190 Christ our Advocate and Saviour]

4 " The Lord is risen indeed :"

Attending angels hear ;
Up to the courts of heaven with speed,
The joyful tidings bear.

5 Then take your golden lyres,

And strike each cheerful chord ;
Join all the bright celestial choirs,
To sing our risen Lord !

A'

203 Rev. 15:3, 4. S.l

WAKE, and sing the song
Of Moses and the Lamb ;
Wake, every heart and every tongue,
To praise the Saviour's name.

2 Sing of his dying love ;

Sing of his rising power \
Sing how he intercedes above
For those whose sins he bore.

3 Ye pilgrims on the road

To Zion's city, sing !
Rejoice ye in the Lamb of God, —
In Christ, th' eternal King.

4 Soon shall we hear him say, —

" Ye blessed children, come ;"

Soon will he call us hence away,

And take his wand'rers home.

5 Then shall each raptured tongue

His endless praise proclaim,
And sweeter voices tune the song
Of Moses and the Lamb.

2U4 Jotin 3: 17. S. M,

RAISE your triumphant songs
To an immortal tune ;
Wide let the earth resound the deeds
Celestial grace has done.

Christ Risen. 19 1

2 Sing how eternal love

Its chief Beloved chose,
And bade him raise our wretched race
From their abyss of woes.

3 Twas mercy filled the throne,

And wrath stood silent by,
When Christ was sent with pardons down
To rebels doomed to die.

4 Now, sinners, dry your tears ;

Let hopeless sorrow cease :

Bow to the sceptre of his love,

And take the offered peace.

;05

Luke 24: 5. C. L. ■.

HOW calm and beautiful the morn
That gilds the sacred tomb,
Where once the Crucified was borne,

And veiled in midnight gloom!
Oh, weep no more the Saviour slain ;
The Lord is risen, he lives again.

Ye mourning saints, dry every tear

For your departed Lord,
"Behold the place, he is not here!"

The tomb is all unbarred :
The gates of death were closed in vain,
The Lord is risen, he lives again.

Now cheerful to the house of prayer,

Your early footsteps bend ;
The Saviour will himself be there,

Your Advocate and Friend :
Once by the law your hopes were slain,
But now, in Christ, ye live again.

How tranquil now the rising day !

'Tis Jesus still appears,
A risen Lord, to chase away

Your unbelieving fears ;

192

Christ in Getbsemane.

Oh, weep no more your comforts slain,
The Lord is risen, he lives again.

5 And when the shades of evening fall,
When life's last hour draws nigh,
If Jesus shines upon the soul,

How blissful then to die!
Since he hath risen that once was slain,
Ye die in Christ to live again.

206 Matt. 26 : 36-46. C. I,. 31,

HE knelt : the Saviour knelt and prayed,
When but his Father's eye
Looked thro' the lonely garden's shade,

On that dread agony ;
The Lord of all above, beneath,
Was bowed with sorrow unto death.

2 He knew them all ; the doubt, the strife,

The faint, perplexing dread ;
The mists that hang o'er parting life,

All darkened round his head ;
And the Deliverer knelt to pray ; —
Yet passed it not, that cup, away.

3 It passed not, though the stormy wave

Had sunk beneath his tread ;
It passed not, though to him the grave

Had yielded up its dead :
But there was sent him, from on high,
A gift of strength for man to die.

4 And was his mortal hour beset

With anguish and dismay ?
How may we meet our conflict yet

In the dark, narrow way ?
How but thro' him, that path who trod ?
Save, or we perish, Son of God !

207

The Coronation. €. M«

ALL hail ! the power of Jesus' name !
Let angels prostrate fall,

Jesus Christ Crowned. 193

Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown him Lord of all.

2 Crown him, ye martyrs of our God,

Who from his altar call ;
Extol the stem of Jesse's rod,
And crown him Lord of all.

3 Ye chosen seed of Israel's race,

Ye ransomed from the fall,
Hail Him who saves you by his grace,
And crown him Lord of all.

4 Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget

The wormwood and the gall :
Go, spread your trophies at his feet,
And crown him Lord of all.

5 Let every kindred, every tribe,

On this terrestrial ball,
To him all majesty ascribe,
And crown him Lord of all.

!0o Heb. 2: 9. CM.

THE head that once was crowned with
Is crowned with glory now ; [thorns
A royal diadem adorns
The mighty Victor's brow.

2 The highest place that heaven affords

Is his by sovereign right ;
The King of kings, and Lord of lords,
He reigns in glory bright.

3 Jesus, the joy of all above !

The joy of all below,
To whom he manifests his love,
And grants his name to know.

4 To them the cross, with all its shame,

With all its grace, is given ;
Their name — an everlasting name,
Their joy — the joy of heaven.
13

194 Jesus Christ Worshipped.

5 To them the cross is life and health,
Though shame and death to him ;
His people's hope, his people's wealth,
Their everlasting theme.

c(

209 Rev. 5: O. €.M|

10ME let us join our cheerful songs j
With angels round the throne ;
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,]
But all their joys are one.

2 Worthy the Lamb that died, they cry,

To be exalted thus ;
Worthy the Lamb, our lips reply,
For he was slain for us.

3 Jesus is worthy to receive

Honor and power divine :
And blessings more than we can give,
Be, Lord, forever thine.

4 The wrhole creation join in one

To bless the sacred name
Of Him who sits upon the throne,
And to adore the Lamb.

C\\ f\ The Voice from Calvary.— J ©fm 19 : 30.

HARK ! the voice of love and mercy
Sounds aloud from Calvary ;
See! it rends the rocks asunder,
Shakes the earth and veils the sky:

"It is finished!"
Hear the dying Saviour cry.

2 "It is finished!" — Oh, what pleasure
Do these charming words afford !
Heavenly blessings without measure
Flow to us from Christ, the Lord :

"It is finished!"
Saints, the dying words record.

Adoration of Christ, 1 95

3 Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs;
Join to sing the pleasing theme:
All on earth and all in heaven,
Join to praise Immanuei's name:

Hallelujah!
Glory to the bleeding Lamb !

/jll Adoration of Christ. 8s «fc 7s.

CROWX his head with endless blessing,
Who, in God the Father's name,
With compassion never ceasing,
Comes, salvation to proclaim,

2 Lo, Jehovah, we adore thee!

Thee, our Saviour — thee, our God!
From thy throne let beams of glory
Shine through all the world abroad.

3 Jesus! thee our Saviour hailing,

Thee our ( rod in praise we own ;
Highest honors, never Failii

Rise eternal round thy throne.

4 Now, ye Baints, his power confi ssing,

In your grateful strains ado
For his mercy never ceasing,
Flows and flows for evermore.

L\l Hob. 1: <l. SsAX

HARK! ten thousand harns and voi<
Sound the note of praise above:
Jesus reigns, and heaven rejoices;

Jesus reigns, the God of love;
Bee, he Bits on yonder throne ;
Jesus rules the world alone.

2 King of glory, reign forev<

Thine an everlasting crown;
Nothing from thy love shall sever

Those whom thou hast made thine own:
Happy objects of thy grace,
Destined to behold thy face.

ig6 Christ Coming to "Judge.

3 Saviour, hasten thine appearing,
Bring, oh, bring the glorious day,
When, the awful summons hearing,

Heaven and earth shall pass away!
Then, with golden harps, we'll sing,
" Glory, glory to our King!"

2Ao Jolm 12: 12-15. Ii.M.

RIDE on, ride on in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die;
O Christ! thy triumphs now begin
O'er captive death and conquered sin.

2 Ride on, ride on in majesty!
The winged squadrons of the sky

Look down, with sad and wondering eyes,
To see th' approaching sacrifice.

3 Ride on, ride on in majesty!

Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh:
The Father, on his sapphire throne,
Expects his own anointed Son.

4 Ride on, ride on in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die :
Bow thy meek head to mortal pain ;
Then take, 0 God, thy power, and reign.

214 Psalm 97. I,. M.

HE reigns ; the Lord, the Saviour, reigns ;
Praise him in evangelic strains :
Let the whole earth in songs rejoice,
And distant islands join their voice.

2 Deep are his counsels and unknown,
But grace and truth support his throne ;
Though gloomy clouds his way surround,
Justice is their eternal ground.

3 In robes of judgment, lo, he comes!
Shakes the wide earth, and cleaves the tombs ;

Christ Equal with God. 197

Before him burns devouring fire ;
The mountains melt, the seas retire.

4 His enemies, with sore dismay,

Fly from the sight, and shun the day :
Then lift your heads, ye saints, on high,
And sing, for your redemption's nigh.

ZIO "ITnto tlie I^ajnb forever.*"— Rev. 5. JL.JK.

WHAT equal honors shall we bring
To thee, O Lord our God, the Lamb,
When all the notes that angels sing
Are far inferior to thy name?

2 Worthy is he who once was slain,

The Prince of peace, who groaned and died ;
Worthy to rise and live and reign
At his almighty Father's Bide.

3 Blessings forever on the Lamb,

Who bore the curse for wretched menl
Let angels sound his sacred name,

And every creature say, A nun!

£lO Phil, ti <;-s. L.K.

BRIGHT King of glory, dreadful GodJ
Our spirits how before thy feet:
To thee we lift an humble thought,
And worship at thine awi'nl seat.

2 A thousand seraphs strong and bright

Stand round the glorious Deity;
But who, among the sons of light,
Pretends comparison with thee? ■

3 Yet there is one of human frame;

Jesus, arrayed in flesh and blood,
Thinks it no robbery to claim
A full equality with God.

4 Their glory shines with equal beams :

Their essence is forever one,

198 Worship of Christ.

Though they are known by different names,
The Father God, and God the Son.

IX I Worship of Christ. Ii. M.

ABOUND the Saviour's lofty throne,
Ten thousand times ten thousand sing;
They worship him as God alone,
And crown him everlasting King.

2 Approach, ye saints! this God is yours!

Tis Jesus fills the throne above:
Ye cannot want while God endures ;
Ye cannot fail while God is love.

3 Jesus, thou everlasting King!

To thee the praise of heaven belongs ;
Yet smile on us, who fain would bring
The tribute of our humble songs.

4 Though sin defile our worship here,

We hope ere long thy face to view ;
And when our souls in heaven appear,
We'll praise thy name as angels do.

£lO "Worthy the Lanib."— Rev. 5. I,. M.

COME, let us sing the song of songs,
The saints in heaven began the strain,
The homage which to Christ belongs :
"Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain!"

2 Slain to redeem us by his blood,

To cleanse from every sinful stain,
And make us kings and priests to God,
"Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain!"

3 To him, enthroned by filial right,

All power in heaven and earth proclaim,
Honor and majesty and might;

"Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain!"

4 Long as we live, and when we die,

And while in heaven with him we reign ;

Offices of Christ, 199

This song, our song of songs shall be :
, "Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain!"

lie/ Worship of Christ. I* JI.

WORTHY the Lamb of boundless sway,
In earth and heaven the Lord of all :
Let all the powers of earth obey,
And low before his footstool fall.

1 Higher, still higher, swell the strain;

Creation's voice the note prolong!
Jesus, the Lamb, shall ever reign :
Let hallelujahs crown the song!

IcXj The Offices of C hrist. I., fc,

NOW to the Lord who makes us know
The wonders, of his dying love,
Be humble honors paid below,
And strains of nobler praise above.

2 To Jesus, our atoning Pri« -

To Jesus, onr exalted King,

Be everlasting power confessed,

And every tongue his glory Miig.

3 Behold! on living clouds he comes,

And every eye shall see him move:
Though with our sins we pierced him onee,
Then he displays his pardoning love.

4 The unbelieving world >hall wail,

While we rejoice to see the day:
Come, Lord! nor let thy promise fail,
Nor let thy chariot long delay.

LL\ Rom. 5: o. C.M.

COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove!
With all thy quickening powers;
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.

200 The Holy Ghost.

2 Look, how we grovel here below,

Fond of these trifling toys;
Our souls can neither fly nor go
To reach eternal joys.

3 In vain we tune our formal songs,

In vain we strive to rise ;
Hosannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies.

4 Dear Lord ! and shall we ever live

At this poor dying rate?
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great?

5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,

VV ith all thy quickening powers ;
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
And that shall kindle ours.

LLL John 16: 7. C. M.

QUR blest Redeemer, ere he breathed
Y ^ 1S tender, last farewell,
A Guide, a Comforter bequeathed,
With us on earth to dwell.

2 He came in tongues of living flame,

lo teach, convince, subdue;
All-powerful as the wind he came,
And all as viewless too

3 And his that gentle voice we hear,

feoft as the breath of even,
That checks each fault, that calms each fear,
And whispers us of heaven.

4 AnAd 67eiy virtue we Possess,

And every virtue won,
And every thought of holiness,
Are his, and his alone.

5 Spirit of purity and grace,

Our weakness pitying see;

The Holy Ghost. 201

Oh, make our hearts thy dwelling-place,
Purer and worthier thee.

IlO Rom. 8:14-16. Kph. 1: 13. C. M .

WHY should the children of a King
Go mourning all their day-?
Great Comforter, descend, and bring
Some tokens of thy grace.

5 Dost thou not dwell in all the saints,
And seal the heirs of heaven 1
When wilt thou banish my complaints,
And show ii. yen?

) Assure my >f her part

In the Redeem 1 ;

And hear thy witness with my heart,
That I am born of I

1 Thou art the earnesl of his
The ]»1< d me;

And thy soft wii 3tial I tove,

Will saf y me hoi

6^4 Itom. S: 11. I,. M.

COME, gracious Spirit, heavenly Do
With light and (-..in
l\r thou our guardian, thou our guide,

O'er every thought and step preside.

2 The light of truth to us display,

And make US know and cho «e thy way;
Plant holy fear in every h<
That we from God m

3 Lead us to holiness, the road

That we must take to dwell with God;
Lead us to Christ, the living way,

Nor let us from his precepts .-tray.

202 Invocation of the Spirit.

ZZu Work of tSie Spirit. \A. $i

ETEKNAL Spirit ! we confess
And sing the wonders of thy grace ;
Thy power conveys our blessings down
From God the Father and the Son.

2 Enlightened by thy heavenly ray,
Our shades and darkness turn to day ;
Thine inward teachings make us know
Our danger and our refuge too.

3 Thy power and glory work within,
And break the chains of reigning sin ;
Do our imperious lusts subdue,
And form our wretched hearts anew.

4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice ;
Thy cheering words awake our joys;
Thy words allay the stormy wind,
And calm the surges of the mind.

UcJO Invocation of toe Spirit. I,. M.

pKEATOE Spirit ! by whose aid

V^ The world's foundations first were laid,

Come, visit every waiting mind ;

Come, pour thy joys on human-kind.

2 Thrice holy Fount, thrice holy Fire,
Our hearts with heavenly love inspire ;
Come, and thy sacred unction bring
To sanctify us, while we sing.

3 Our frailties help, our wills control,
( Subdue the senses to the soul ;

And when rebellious they are grown,
Then lay thy hand, and hold them down.

4 Make us eternal truths receive,
And practise all that we believe ;
Give us thyself, that wTe may see
The Father and the Son by thee.

The Holy Ghost. 203

U / Invocation of the Spirit. L.. M.

COME, Holy Spirit! calm my mind,
And fit me to a d ;

Remove each vain _lit,

And lead me to thy blest ab< de.

Hast thou imparted to my soul

A living spark of h
Oh ! kindle now the ea ne ;

Make me to burn with pure desire.

A brighter faith and hope impart,

And let me now my Savi >ur se
Oli! soothe and cheer my burd ued heart,

And bid my spirit n 31 in I

C\J Ancient Hymn to Use Holy i.Jiosl. 7s.

Holy spirit : L
Prom 1 1 jht,

Thy pur<
Come, i .

Com-', with I

( oine, thou i that 1 1

2 Thou of all
Visiting

Dost refrei hinj >w ;

Thou in toil art comfori
Pleasant coolm ss in th

Solace in th

3 Light imm
Visit thou tl

And our inmost being ii!l :
It' thou take thy
Nothing pure in man will stay;

All his good is turned to ill.

4 Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour thy dew ;

Wash the stains of guilt away :

204 The Gifts of the Spirit besought.

Bend the stubborn heart and will ;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill ;

Guide the steps that go astray.
5 Thou, on those who evermore
Thee confess, and thee adore,

In thy sevenfold gifts, descend ;
Give them comfort when they die ;
Give them life with thee on high ;'

Give them joys which never end.

^^5J 2 Cor. 1: 22.

QRACIOUS Spirit, Love divine !
VJ Let thy light within me shine ;
All my guilty fears remove,
Fill me with thy heavenly love.

2 Speak thy pardoning grace to me,
Set the burdened sinner free ;
Lead me to the Lamb of God,
Wash me in his precious blood.

3 Life and peace to me impart,
Seal salvation on my heart ;

Breathe thyself into my breast,

Earnest of immortal rest.

4 Let me never from thee stray,
Keep me in the narrow way ;
Fill my soul with joy divine,'
Keep me, Lord ! forever thine.

LO J TUe Spirit Invoked.

TTOLY Ghost, thou Source of light !
-*-A We invoke thy kindling ray:
Dawn upon our spirits' night,

Turn our darkness into day.
2 To the anxious soul impart

Hope, all other hopes above ;

w-hu dul1 and hardened heart
With a longing and a love.

The Gifts of the Spirit besought. 205

3 Give the struggling peace for strife ;

Give the doubting light for gloom;
I Speed the living into life,

Warn the dying of their doom.

4 Work in all, in all renew,

Day by day, the life divine ;
All our wills to thee

All our hearts to thee incline.

jl 2 Cor. 1 : 22. 7s.

HOLY Ghost, with light divine,
Shine upon this heart of mine;
Chase the shades of night a
Turn my darknes day.

2 Holy Ghost, witb power «li
( lleanse this guilty I

Long hath ein, with rol,

Held dominion o'er my soul.

3 Holy ( rhost, with joy divi

Cheer this 8add n of mine ;

Bid my many \

Heal my wound* d, art !

4 Holy Spirit, all dh

Dwell within tlii
( last down

Reign Bupreme, and reign al

jL " Bleat Comforter." S. .H.

BLEST Comforter :;-
Lei rays ol h ave :'

Amid our gloom and dai nine,

And guide our souls above.

2 Draw, with thy still, small
From every sinful way ;
And bid the mourning saint rejoice,

Though cart hl\ joys de<

206 The Holy Spirit's Presence and Power.

3 By thine inspiring breath
Make every cloud of care,
And e'en the gloomy vale of death,
A smile of glory wear.

LOO Presence of tBie Spirit. S.

THE Comforter has come ;
We feel his presence here ;
Our hearts would now no longer roam,
But bow in filial fear.

2 This tenderness of love,

This hush of solemn power,
'Tis heaven descending from above,
To fill this favored hour.

3 Earth's darkness all has fled,

Heaven's light serenely shines,
And every heart divinely led,
To holy thought inclines.

4 No more let sin deceive,

Nor earthly cares betray ;
Oh, let us never, never grieve
The Comforter away !

Zo4 Invocation. S. M

COME, Holy Spirit ! come ;
Let thy bright beams arise ;
Dispel the sorrow from our minds,
The darkness from our eyes.

2 Convince us of our sin ;

Then lead to Jesus' blood :
And to our wondering view reveal
The secret love of God.

3 Revive our drooping faith,

Our doubts and fears remove,
And kindle in our breasts the flame
Of never-dying love.

Prayer for the Spirit. 20 J

4 'Tis thine to cleanse the heart,

To sanctify the soul,
To pour fresh life in every part,
And new-create the whole.

5 Dwell, Spirit ! in our hearts ;

Our minds from bondage free ;
Then shall we know and praise and love
The Father, Son, and Thee.

235 Phil. 2: 13. S. M.

?miS God the Spirit leads

J- In paths before unknown ;
The work to be performed is ours,

The strength is all his own.

2 Supported by his grace,

We still pursue our way ;
And hope at last to reach the prize,
Secure in endless day.

3 'Tis he that works to will.

'Tis lie that works t" do;
His is the power by which we act,
His be the glory too.

LOU Prayer for the IloJy Spirit. II. K.

THOTJ that hearesl prayer!

o

Attend our humble cry,

And let thy servants share
Thy blessing from on high :

We plead the promise of thy word,
Grant us thy Holy Spirit, Lord !

2 If earthly parents hear

Their children when they cry;
If they, with love sincere,

Their children's wants supply;
Much more wilt thou thy love display,
And answer when thy children pray.

208 The Trinity.

3 Our heavenly Father thou, —
We, children of thy grace, —
Oh, let thy Spirit now

Descend and till the place;
That all may feel the heavenly flame,
And all unite to praise thy name.

237

Trinity. u. jj.

FTIO Him that chose us first,
-J- Before the world began ;
To Him that bore the curse
To save rebellious man ;

Is endless praise
And glory due.

To Him that formed
Our hearts anew,

2 The Father's love shall run

Through our immortal songs :
We bring to God the Son
Hosannas on our tongues ;

With equal praise,
And zeal the same.

Our lips address
The Spirit's name

3 Let every saint above,

And angel round the throne,
Forever bless and love
The sacred Three in One :

Thus, heaven shall raise
His honors high,

When earth and time
Grow old and die.

nop

£00 The Bivine Perfections. H. M[

HPHE Lord Jehovah reigns :
r*- His throne is built on high ;
The garments he assumes
Are light and majesty

His glories shine
With beams so bright

Xo mortal eye
Can bear the sight.
2 The thunders of his hand

Keep the wide world in awe ;
His wrath and justice stand
To guard his* holy law ;

The Trinity. 209

His truth confirms
And seals the grace.

And where his love
Kesolves to bless,

Through all his ancient works
Surprising wisdom shines,

Confounds the powers of hell,
And breaks their fell designs

Strong is his arm,
And shall fulfil

His great decrees,
His sovereign will.

7 The Trinity. 6s «fc 4s.

COME, thou Almighty King !
Help us thy name to sing,
Help us to praise.
Father all glorious,
O'er all victorious,
Come and reign over us,
Ancient of days.

2 Come, thou Incarnate Word !
Gird on thy mighty sword,

Our prayer attend.
Come, and thy people bless,
And give thy word success ;
Spirit of holiness,

On us descend.

3 Come, Holy Comforter !
Thy sacred witness bear,

In this glad hour.
Thou, who almighty art,
Now rule in every heart,
And ne'er from us depart,

Spirit of power.

4 To the great One in Three
The highest praises be,

Hence evermore !
His sovereign majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity,

Love and adore !

14

210 Praise of Christ.

240 Rev. 5 : 12. 6s <fc 4

GLORY to God on high !
Let heaven and earth reply,
Praise ye his name ;
His love and grace adore,
Who all our sorrows bore ;
And sing for evermore,
"Worthy the Lamb !"

2 Ye who surround the throne,
Join cheerfully in one,

Praising his name,
Ye who have felt his blood
Sealing your peace with God,
Sound his dear name abroad :

"Worthy the Lamb!"

3 Join, all ye ransomed race,
Our Lord and God to bless;

Praise ye his name ;
In him we will rejoice,
And make a joyful noise,
Shouting with heart and voice,

"Worthy the Lamb!"

4 Soon must we change our place;
Yet will we never cease

Praising his name ;
To him our songs we'll bring,
Hail him our gracious King,
And through all ages sing,

"Worthy the Lamb!"

SECTION V.

SALVATION BY CHRIST.

(a.) Depravity, Regeneration, At

(b.) Invitations, Warnings, and Expos-
tulate ><l.

(c.) Repentance and Faith.

"Blessed be the Lord God of I 'he bath visited

and redeemed his people, and I I up an horn <»f

salvation l"<ir as, in Ui«' house ol aifl Bervant l»:i\i<l." —
Zacharicu* Hymn, I.iki: l: 68,60.

211

SALVATION BY CHRIST.

241 Zecti. 0:12. CM.

HOW sad our state by nature is !
Our sin, how deep it -tains !
And Satan holds our captive minds
Fast in his slavish chai

2 But there's a voire of D grace

Bounds from the sacred word :
"JEo ! ye despairing me,

And trust upon the Lord."

3 My soul obeys tlT almighty call,

And runs to this relief:
I would believe thy promise, Lord:
Oh, help my unbelief]

4 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,

On thy kind ai II:

Be thou my Btrength and righteousm

My Saviour and my All.

Zt-Z C»o«1 revealed in t2ie Atonement. C JI.

FATHER, how wide thy glory Bhinee!
How high thy wonders rise !
Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousand through the Bki

2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy poi

Their motions speak thy >kili ;
And on the wings of every hour
We read thy patience still.

3 But when we view thy Btrange design

To save rebellious worms.

Where vengeance and compassion join

In their divinest forms, —

213

214 Salvation by Christ.

4 Here the whole Deity is known ;

Nor dares a creature guess
Which of the glories brightest shine,
The justice or the grace.

5 Now the full glories of the Lamb

Adorn the heavenly plains ;
Bright seraphs learn ImmanueFs name,
And try their choicest strains.

6 Oh, may I bear some humble part

In that immortal song!
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.

243 Gal. 2: 16. CM.

~N vain we seek for peace with God
By methods of our own :
Nothing, O Saviour ! but thy blood,
Can bring us near the throne.

2 But thine illustrious sacrifice

Hath answered all demands ;
And peace and pardon from the skies
Are offered by thy hands.

3 Tis by thy death we live, O Lord V

'Tis on thy cross wre rest :
Forever be thy love adored,
Thy name forever blessed.

Z44 Psalm 51. ;l. m.

LOKD, I am vile, conceived in sin,
And born unholy and unclean ;
Sprung from the man wThose guilty fall
Corrupts the race, and taints us all.

2 Soon as wre draw our infant breath,
The seeds of sin grow up for death :
Thy law demands a perfect heart ;
But we're denied in every part.

Depravity. End of the Wicked. 215

3 Great God! create my heart anew,
And form my spirit pure and true ;
No outward rites can make me clean,
The leprosy lies deep within.

No bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast,

Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest,
Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea,
Can wash the dismal stain away.

Jesus, my God, thy blood alone
Hath power sufficient to atom- ■
Thy blood can make me whi w;

No Jewish types could cleanse me

/l4b Matt. 7: 13,11. L. H.

BROAD is the road thai leads to death,
And thousands walk together there;

But wisdom show- a narrow path,

With here and there a traveller.

" Deny thyself, and take thy cross,"

Is the Redeemer's great command :
Nature must count her gold but dn

It" she would Lf:iin this heavenly land.

:> The fearful bou! that tires and hint

And walks the way- of God DO more,

Is but esteemed almost a saint,
And makes his own destruction sure.

4 Lord! let not all my hop< - be vain;

( Ireate my heart entirely new :

Which hypocrite- could ne'er attain;

Which false apostates never knew.

24b Psalm 7.5. I* ■•

LORD, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
To mourn and murmur and repine,
To see the wicked, placed on high,

Iu pride and robes of honor shine!

216 Salvation in Christ alone.

2 But oh, their end, their dreadful end!

Thy sanctuary taught me so :
On slippery rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.

3 Their fancied joys, how fast they flee !

Just like a dream wrhen man awrakes ;
Their songs of softest harmony

Are but a prelude to their plagues.

4 Now I esteem their mirth and wine

Too dear to purchase with my blood :
Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine,
My life, my portion, and my God !

I>oxology.

PK AISE God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise him, all creatures here below ;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

247 Jer. 8 : 22. !L. M.

DEEP are the wounds which sin has made ;
Where shall the sinner find a cure ?
In vain, alas, is nature's aid ;

The work exceeds all nature's power.

2 And can no sovereign balm be found?

And is no kind physician nigh,
To ease the pain and heal the wround,
Ere life and hope forever fly ?

3 There is a great physician near,

Look up, O fainting soul, and live ;
See in his heavenly smiles appear
Such ease as nature cannot give !

4 See, in the Saviour's dying blood,

Life, health, and bliss abundant flow!
'Tis only this dear sacred flood

Can ease thy pain, and heal thy woe.

Salvation in Christ alone. 217

248 Hope in Christ. !L. 31.

LOOK up, my soul, with cheerful eve.
See where the great Redeemer stands,
The glorious Advocate on high,

With precious incense in his hands !

1 He sweetens every humble groan,

He recommends each broken prayer;
Recline thy hope on him alone

Whose power and love fori) id despair.

5 Teach my weak heart, 0 gracious Lord !
With stronger faith to call thee mine;
Bid me pronounce the blissful word,

My Father, God, with joy divine.

i4y Horn. 1: 16. In W*

WHAT shall the dying sinner do,
That seeks relief for all his woe?
Where shall the guilty conscience find
Ease for the torment of the mind}

2 Tn vain we search, in vain we try,

Till Jesus brings his gospel nigh !

'Tis there the power and glory dwell,

That save rebellious soula from hell.

} This is the pillar of our hope,
That bears our fainting spirits up;
We read the grace, we trust the word,
And find salvation in the Lord.

250 Phil. 2: 9. EfK.

rnilERE is none other name than thine,
J- Jehovah Jesus I Name divine I
On which to rest for sins forgiven, —

For peace with God, for hope of heaven.

2 There is none other name than thine,
When cares and fears and griefs are mine,

IT

21 8 Salvation by Grace.

That, with a gracious power, can heal
Each care and fear and grief I feel.

3 There is no other name than thine,
When called my spirit to resign,
To bear me through that latest strife,
And ev'n in death to be my life.

4 Name above every name ! thy praise
Shall fill the remnant of my days :
Jehovah Jesus ! Xante divine !
Rock of salvation ! thou art mine.

1 Cor. 1 : 30. s. M

TOW heavy is the night
L That hangs upon our eyes,
Till Christ, with his reviving light,

Upon our souls arise !

2 Our guilty spirits dread

To meet the wrath of Heaven ;
But in his righteousness arrayed,
We see our sins forgiven.

3 Unholy and impure

Are all our thoughts and ways :
His hands infected nature cure,
With sanctifying grace.

4 The powers of hell agree

To hold our souls in vain ;
He sets the sons of bondage free,
And breaks th' accursed chain.

5 Lord, we adore thy ways,

To bring us near to God,—
Thy sovereign power, thy healing grace,
And thine atoning blood.

UOL Necessity of Pardon. S. Hf.

CAN sinners hope for heaven,
Who love this world so well ?

Salvation by Grace. 219

Or dream of future happiness,
While on the road to hell ?

2 Shall they hosannas sing,

With an unhallowed tongue?
Shall palms adorn the guilty hand
Which does its n wrong?

3 Can sin's deceitful way

Conduct to Zion's hill?
Or those expect with God to reign
Who disregard his will?

4 Thy grace, O God, alone,

( rood hope can e'er afford !
The pardoned and the pure shall see
The glory of the Lord.

53 Epli. 2: 5. S. WL

GRACE! sound,

Harmoniou
Heaven with tie and,

And all the earth shall hear.

2 Grace first contrive da

T<> save rebellious n
And all the steps thai grace display,
Which drew the wondrous plan.

3 Grace led my wand

To tread thr heavenly road ;
And new suppli our 1 meet,

While pressing on to ( rod,

4 Grace all the work shall crown,

Through everlas
It lavs in heaven th >ne,

And well d< praise.

Doxoiogy.

"Y^E angels round the Throne,
J- And saints that dwell below,
Worship the Father, praise the 6on,
And bless the Spirit too.

220 The Blood of Christ.

&0*i John 1: 29. s,

]^0T all the blood of beasts,
-L ^ On Jewish altars slain,
Could give the guilty conscience peace,
Or wash away the stain.

2 But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,

Takes all our sins away,—
A sacrifice of nobler name,
And richer blood than they.

3 My faith would lay her hand

On that dear head of thine,
While like a penitent I stand,
And there confess my sin.

4 My soul looks back to see

The burdens thou didst bear,
When hanging on th' accursed tree,
And hopes her guilt was there.

5 Believing, we rejoice

To see the curse remove ;
We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice
And sing his bleeding love.

255

John 10 : 11. s# m

F IKE sheep we went astray,
-^ And broke the fold of God ;
Each wandering in a different way,
But all the downward road.

2 How dreadful was the hour,

a T^n G°d °Ur wailderings laid,
And did at once his vengeance pour
Upon the Shepherd's head !

3 How glorious was the grace,

\\hen Christ sustained the stroke!
-tlis life and blood the Shepherd pays,
A ransom for the flock

Necessity of Regeneration. 221

4 But God shall raise his head
O'er all the sons of men,
And make him see a numerous seed,
To recompense his pain.

56 Job 9: 2. S. ^1.

AH, how shall fallen man
Be just before his God ?
If he contend in righteousness,
We fall beneath his rod.

2 If he our ways should mark,

With strict inquiring eyes,
Could we for one of thousand faults
A just excuse devifl

3 All-seeing, powerful God!

Who can with thee contend?
Or who that tries th' unequal strife,
Shall prosper in the end?

4 The mountain^ in thy wrath.

Their ancient seats forsake ;
The trembling earth deserts her place,
Her rooted pillars shak

5 Ah, how shall guilty man

Contend with Buch a God?

None, none can meet him and escape,
But through the Saviour's blood.

557 Rom. 7: <>. <*• K.

LORD, how secure my conscience was,
And felt no inward dread!
I was alive without the law,

And thought my sins were dead.

2 My hopes of heaven were firm and bright ;
But since the precept came
With such convincing power and light,
I find how vile I am.

222

Necessity of Regeneration.

3 My guilt appeared but small before

Till I with terror saw
How perfect, holy, just, and pure
Is thine eternal law.

4 Then felt my soul the heavy load ;

My sins revived again :
I had provoked a dreadful God,
And all my hopes were slain.'

5 My God ! I cry with every breath,

1 or some kind power to save ;
Un break the yoke of sin and death,
And thus redeem the slave.

^° Kom.8:8. eJ

T-T°W helpless guilty nature lies,
;*--*- Unconscious of its load '
The heart, unchanged, can never rise
J-0 happiness and God.

2 Can aught beneath a power divine,

lhe stubborn will subdue?
lis thine, almighty Spirit! thine,
lo lorm the heart anew.

3 'Tis thine the passions to recall,

And upward bid them rise;
lo make the scales of error fall
Iran reason's darkened eyes;—

4 To chase the shades of death away,

And bid the sinner live •
A beam ?f heaven, a vital' ray,
-lis thine alone to give.

5 Oh, change these wretched hearts of ours

And give them life divine;

IwS T PlSli0ns and our Powers,

Almighty Lord, be thine.

Salvation by Christ. 223

259 Jolin 1: 12, 13. CM.

^\TOT all the outward forms on earth,
-l-i Nor rites that God has given,
Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.

2 The sovereign will of God alone

Creates us heirs of grace ;
Born in the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.

3 The Spirit, like some heavenly wind,

Breathes on the sous of flesh,
New-models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

4 Our quickened souls awake and rise

From the long Bleep of death ;

On heavenly things we fix our eyes,

And praise employ- our breath.

260 CSal. 2: 20. C ■.

GREAT God, when I approach thy throne,
And all thy glory
This is my stay, and this alone,
That Jesus died for me.

2 How can a soul condemned to die
Escape tin4 jusl 1
Helpless and full of sin am I,
But Jesus died for me.

■3 Burdened with sin's oppressive chain,
Oh, how can I get free?
No peace can all my efforts gain,
But Jesus died for me.

And, Lord, when I behold thy face,

This must be all my plea ;
Save me by thy almighty grace,

For Jesus died for me.

224 Deceiifuhiess of Sin.

Z01 Salvation. CM,

SALVATION !-oh, the joyful sound!
Tis to our ears ;

i balm for every wound,
or our fears.

2 Buried in sorrow and in sin,

hell's dark door we la}-;
But we arise by grace divine,
To see a heavenly day.

3 Salvation ! — let the echo fly

The spacious earth around ;

While all the armies of the sky

Conspire to raise the sound.

£UZ Psalm 40. CM.

OLORD, how infinite thy love !
How wondrous are thy ways !
Let earth beneath, and heaven above,
Combine to sing thy praise.

2 Man in immortal beauty shone,

Thy noblest work below;
Too soon by sin made heir alone
To death and endless woe.

3 Then, " Lo! I come," the Saviour said :

Oh, be his name adored,
Who, with his blood, our ransom paid,
And life and bliss restored !

263

The Throne of Love. c M.

i^OME, let us lift our joyful eyes
^ Up to the courts above,
And smile to see our Father there,
Upon a throne of love.

Come, let us bow before his feet

And venture near the Lord :
No fiery cherubs guard his seat,

Nor double-flaming sword.

Precious Blood of Christ. Calvary. 225

3 The peaceful gates of heavenly bliss
Are opened by the Son ;
High let us raise our notes of praise,
And reach th' almighty Throne.

To thee ten thousand thanks we bring,

Great Advocate on high,
And glory to the eternal King,

Who lays his anger by.

6U4 Zech. 13:1. CM.

THERE is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins ;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day ;
And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood

Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed church of God

Be saved, to sin no more.

4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,

Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save,

When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

2bO The Love of Christ. C. M.

THE Saviour ! Oh, what endless charms
Dwell in the blissful sound !
Its influence every fear disarms,
And spreads sweet comfort round.

226 Calvary.

2 Wrapped in the gloom of dark despair,

We helpless, hopeless lay ;
But sovereign mercy reached us there,
And smiled despair away.

3 Th' almighty Former of the skies

Stooped to our vile abode ;
While angels viewed with wondering eyes,
And hailed th' incarnate God.

4 Here pardon, life, and joys divine,

In rich effusion flow,
For guilty rebels lost in sin,
And doomed to endless woe.

5 Come, heavenly love, inspire my song

With thy immortal flame,
And teach my heart, and teach my tongue,
The Saviour's lovely name.

ZOO Calvary. C. M.

0 CHRIST, our ever blessed Lord,
For man's transgression slain,
We thy redeeming love record
In songs of thankful strain.

'to^

2 We upward lift our longing eyes,

And muse on Calvary ;

On thy mysterious sacrifice,

Thy shame and agony.

3 We all like erring sheep had strayed

From God the Father's care ;

The guilt of all on thee was laid ;

Our burden thou didst bear.

4 O Christ, be thou our present joy,

Our future great reward ;
Our only glory may it be,
To glory in the Lord !

Salvation by Christ. 227

Vol Christ's Pity and Love. C. M.

LUXGED in a gulf of dark despair,

p1

We wretched sinners lay,
Without one cheerful beam of hope,
Or spark of glimmering day.

With pitying eyes the Prince of grace
Beheld our helpless grief;

He saw, and — oh, amazing love ! —
He ran to our relief.

} Down from the - above,

With joyful haste he fled,
Entered the grave in mortal flesh,
And dwelt among the dead.

1 Oh, for this love let rocks and bills
Their lasting bH ak ;

And all harmonious human I
The Saviour's pri

Angels, assist our mi

Strike all your harps oi
But when you raise your highest d A s,

His love can ie

2bo .loini it: (;. < . n.

THOU art the Way: to thee alone
Prom sin and death we I
And he who would the Pather seek,
Must Beek him, Lord, by thee.

Thou art the Truth: thy word a!

True wisdom can impa
Thou only cansl instruct the mind,
And purity the heart.

Thou art the Life: the rending tomb
Proclaims thy conquering arm;

And those who put their trust in thee
Nor death nor hell shall harm.

228 Salvation by Christ.

4 Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life;
Grant us to know that Way,
That Truth to keep, that Life to win,
Which leads to endless day.

269 Eph. 2:8. CM

AMAZING grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found, —
Was blind, but now I see.

2 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

And grace my fears relieved :
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believed !

3 Through many dangers, toils, and snares,

I have already come ;
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

4 Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,

And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

L /(J Rom. 5:8. C. M.

JESUS, — and didst thou leave the sky,
To bear our griefs and woes ?
And didst thou bleed and groan and die
For thy rebellious foes ?

2 Well might the heavens with wonder view

A love so strange as thine !
No thought of angels ever knew
Compassion so divine !

3 Is there a heart that will not bend

To thy divine control?
Descend, O sovereign Love, descend,
And melt that stubborn soul !

Salvation by Christ. 229

4 Oh, may our willing hearts confess
Thy sweet, thy gentle sway;
Glad captives of thy matchless grace,
Thy righteous rule obey.

2/1 ICor. 1: 23; 3: 6, 7. CM.

C HEIST and his cross are all our theme ;
The mysteries that we speak
Are scandal in the Jews' esteem,
And folly to the Greek.

2 But souls enlightened from above,

With joy receive the word ;
They see what wisdom, power, and love
Shine in their dying Lord.

3 The vital savor of his name
Restores their fainting breath ;

But unbelief perverts the same
To guilt, despair, and death.

4 Till God diffuse his graces down,
Like showers of heavenly rain,

In vain Apollos sows the ground,
And Paul may plant in vain.

272 Acts 1: 11. H. M.

COME, every pious heart,
That loves the Saviour's name,
Your noblest powers exert
To celebrate his fame :

Tell all above,
And all below,

The debt of love
To him you owe.

2 He left his starry crown,
And laid his robes aside ;
On wings of love came down,
And wept and bled and died :

What he endured,
No tongue can tell,

To save our souls
From death and hell.

230 The Sin-atoning Saviour.

3 From the dark grave lie rose, —

The mansion of the dead, —
And thence his mighty foes

In glorious triumph led ;
Up through the sky And reigns on high,
The conqueror rode, The Saviour-God.

4 From thence he'll quickly come, —

His chariot will not stay, —
And bear our spirits home

To realms of endless day:
There shall we see
His lovely face,

Z / O The Sin-atoning Saviour. H. M

THY works, not mine, O Christ !
Speak gladness to this heart :
They tell me all is done ;
They bid my fear depart :

And ever be
In his embrace.

To whom, save thee,
Who canst alone

For sin atone,
Lord, shall I flee?

2 Thy tears, not mine, O Christ,

Have wept my guilt away,
And turned this night of mine

Into a blessed day;
To whom, save thee, For sin atone,
Who canst alone Lord, shall I flee?

3 Thy wounds, not mine, O Christ,

Can heal my bruised soul ;
Thy stripes, not mine, contain

The balm that makes me whole :
To whom, save thee, For sin atone,
Who canst alone Lord, shall I flee?

4 Thy righteousness alone

Can clothe and beautify ;
I wrap it round my soul ;
In this I'll live and die:

To whom, save thee,
Who canst alone

For sin atone,
Lord, shall I flee ?

Tear of 'Jubilee. 231

274 Lnke4: 19. H. M.

BLOW ye the trumpet, blow !
The gladly solemn sound,
Let all the nations know,

To earth's remotest bound :
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.

2 Exalt the Lamb of God,

The Bin-atoning Lamb!
Redemption by his blood,

Through every land, proclaim :
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransomed Binners, home.

3 The gospel trumpet hear,

The news of pardoning grace:
Ye happy souls, draw near;

Behold your Saviour's fa
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye railBomed sinners, home.

4 Jesus, our great High Priest,

Has full atonement made ; g

Ye weary spirits, fl

Y< mourning souls, be glad
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.

CIO Prophet, Priest. nn<i Kin;:. If. M.

JOIN all the glorious names
Of wisdom, love, and power,

That ever mortals knew,

That angels ev< r boi
All are too mean to speak his worth,
Too mean to set my Saviour forth.

2 Great Prophet of our God !

Our tongues would bless thy name:

2? 2 Glorying in the Cross.

By thee the joyful news

Of our salvation came;
The joyful news of sins forgiven,
Of bell subdued, and peace with heaven.

3 Jcsu-, our great High Priest,

Offered his blood and died;
My guilty conscience needs

No sacrifice beside ;
His powerful blood did once atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.

27b In Christ.— Heb. 7: 22. H. M.

ARISE, my soul, arise,
Shake off thy guilty fears ;
The bleeding Sacrifice

In my behalf appears ;
Before the throne my Surety stands :
My name is written on his hands.

2 He ever lives above,

For me to intercede,
His all-redeeming love,

His precious blood to plead ;
His blood atoned for all our race,
And sprinkles now the throne of grace.

3 My God is reconciled ;

His pardoning voice I hear ;
He owns me for his child ;

I can no longer fear ;
His Spirit answers to the blood,
And tells me, " Thou art born of God."

277

Col. 1: 20. H. M.

YE saints, your music bring,
Attuned to sweetest sound ;
Strike every trembling string,

Till earth and heaven resound :
The triumphs of the cross we sing ;
Awake, ye saints, each joyful string!

The Gospel Call. 233

2 The cross hath power to save

From all the foes that rise ;
The cross hath made the grave

A passage to the skies :
The triumphs of the cross we sing ;
Awake, ye saints, each joyful string !

I/O The Glad Tidings. H. HE.

"ARK, hark ! — the notes of joy

H

Roll o'er the heavenly plains,
And seraphs find employ

For their sublimest strains ;
Some new delight in heaven is known :
Loud sound the harps around the throne.

Hark, hark ! — the sound draws nigh,

The joyful hosts descend ;
Jesus forsakes the sky,

To earth his footsteps bend ;
He comes to bless our fallen race ;
He comes with messages of grace.
Bear, bear the tidings round ;

Let every mortal know
What love in God is found,

What pity he can show ;
Ye winds that blow ! ye waves that roll !
Bear the glad news from pole to pole.

279

Matt. 11: 28-30. I«. M.

WITH tearful eyes I look around,
Life seems a dark and stormy sea ;
Yet, 'midst the gloom, I hear a sound,
A heavenly whisper, " Come to Me."

It tells me of a place of rest —

It tells me where my soul may flee ;

Oh, to the weary, faint, oppressed,

How sweet the bidding, " Come to Me."

When nature shudders, loath to part
From all I love, enjoy, and see ;

234 The Gospel Call.

When a faint chill steals o'er my heart,
A sweet voice utters, " Come to Me."

4 Come, for all else must fail and die ;

Earth is no resting-place for thee ;
Heavenward direct thy weeping eye ;
I am thy portion, " Come to Me."

5 Oh, voice of mercy ! voice of love !

In conflict, grief, and agony,
Support me, cheer me from above !
And gently whisper, " Come to Me."

2ol) The Love of Christ. I*. I

"AVE we no tears to shed for Him,
While soldiers scoff, and Jews deride?
Ah ! look, how patiently he hangs, —
Jesus, our Love, is crucified !

2 What was thy crime, my dearest Lord ?

By earth, by heaven, thou hast been tried,
And guilty found of too much love ;
Jesus, our Love, is crucified !

3 Found guilty of excess of love !

It was thine own sweet will that tied
Thee tighter far than helpless nails ;
Jesus, our Love, is crucified !

4 Oh, break, oh, break, hard heart of mine!

Thy weak self-love and guilty pride
His Pilate and his Judas were ;
Jesus, our Love, is crucified !

5 A broken heart, a fount of tears,

Ask, and they will not be denied ;
A broken heart love's cradle is ;
Jesus, our Love, is crucified !

CtOl Invitation. ]L. 31.

COME, weary souls, with sin distressed,
Come, and accept the promised rest ;

Invitations and Exhortations. 235

The Saviour's gracious call obey,
And cast your gloomy fears away.

2 Oppressed with guilt, — a painful load, —
Oh, command bow before your God !
Divine compassion, mighty love,
Will all the painful load remove.

Here mercy's boundless ocean flows,
To cleanse your guilt and heal your woes;
Pardon and life and endless peace, —
How rich the gift, how free the grace !

I 4 Dear Saviour! let thy powerful love
Confirm our faith, our fears remove;
Oh, sweetly iv' fery brea

And guide us to eternal r Bt.

CJjL Psalm 88. I,. H.

WHILE life prolongs its precious light,
Mercy is found and
But soon, aii! soon, approaching night
Shall blot out e\ heaven.

2 Soon, borne on time'e rapid wing,

Shall death command jrou to the grave,
Before his bar your spirits brill
And none be found to h< save.

3 In that lone land of deep d -pair,
No Sabbath's h . shall rise;

No God regard your bitb r prayer,
Nor Saviour call you to the skies.

Now God invites — how bJ day!

How sweet the { and I

Come, sinners, haste, oh,

While yet a pardoning ( rod is found.

ZuO Rev. 3: 20. L,. M.

BEHOLD a Stranger at the door!
He gently knocks, has knocked before;

236 Invitations and Exhortations.

Has waited long, is waiting still:
Yon treat no other friend so ill.

2 Oh, lovely attitude! he stands
With melting heart and open hands:
Oh, match less kindness! — and he shows
This matchless kindness to his foes!

3 Kise, touched with gratitude divine,
Turn out his enemy and thine;
Turn out thy soul-enslaving sin,
And let the heavenly Stranger in.

4 Oh, welcome him, the Prince of peace!
Now may his gentle reign increase!
Throw wide the door, each willing mind,
And be his empire all mankind.

^o4 Matt. 11: 28. I.. 31.

COME hither, all ye weary souls,
Ye heavy-laden sinners come ;
I'll give you rest from all your toils,
And raise you to my heavenly home.

2 They shall find rest who learn of me;

I'm of a meek and lowly mind;
But passion rages like the sea,
And pride is restless as the wind.

3 Blest is the man whose shoulders take

My yoke, and bear it with delight ;
My yoke is easy to his neck,

My grace shall make the burden light.

4 Jesus! we come at thy command,

With faith and hope and humble zeal;
Resign our spirits to thy hand,

To mould and guide us at thy will.

^OO Gen. 6: 3. t. 3f .

Q AY, sinner! hath a voice within
^ Oft whispered to thy secret soul,

Invitations and Exhortations. 237

Urged thee to leave the ways of sin,
And yield thy heart to God's control?

2 Sinner, it was a heavenly voice,
It was the Spirit's gracious call ;

It bade thee make the better choice,
And haste to seek in Christ thine all.

3 Spurn not the call to life and light;
Regard, in time, the warning kind ;

That call thou mayst not always slight,
And yet the gate of mercy find.

God's Spirit will not always strive
With hardened, self-destroying man;

Ye who persist his love to grieve
May never hear his voice again.

20U tiike 10: 42. t. 31.

WHY will ye waste on trifling cares
That life which God's compassion
spares ?
While, in the various range of thought,
The one thing needful is forgot.

2 Shall God invite you from above?
Shall Jesus urge his dying love?

Shall troubled conscience give you pain,
And all these pleas unite in vain?

3 Not so your eyes will always view
Those objects which you now pursue:
Not so will heaven and hell appear,
When death's decisive hour is near.

4 Almighty God ! thy grace impart ;
Fix deep conviction on each heart;
Nor let us waste on trifling cares
That life which thy compassion spares.

Zol John 3: 17. CM.

COME, happy souls, approach your God
With new, melodious songs;

238 Living Water.

Come, render to almighty Grace,
The tribute of your tongues.

2 So strange, so boundless was the love

That pitied dying men,
The Father sent his equal Son
To give them life again.

3 Here, sinners, come and heal your wounds;

Come, wipe your sorrows dry ;
Come, trust the mighty Saviour's name,
And you shall never die.

4 See, dearest Lord, our willing souls

Accept thine offered grace;
We bless the great Redeemer's love,
And give the Father praise.

2oO Psalm 34. CM

SINNERS, come and taste his love,
Come, learn his pleasant ways,
And let your own experience prove
The sweetness of his grace.

2 He bids his angels pitch their tents

Where'er his children dwell;
What ills their heavenly care prevents,
No earthly tongue can tell.

3 Oh, love the Lord, ye saints of his;

His eye regards the just:
How richly blest their portion is
Who make the Lord their trust!

Zou The Living Water. CM

OH! what amazing words of grace
Are in the gospel found,
Suited to every sinner's case
Who hears the joyful sound!

2 Come, then, with all your wants and wounds
Your every burden bring;

Invitations, 239

Here love, unchanging love, abounds, —
A deep, celestial spring.

This spring with living water flows,

And heavenly joy imparts;
Come, thirsty souls! your wants disclose,

And drink, with thankful hearts.

Millions of sinners, vile as you,
Have here found life and peace;

Come then, and prove its virtues too,
And drink, adore, and bless.

90 Luke 15: 18. CM.

RETURN, 0 wanderer, to thy home,
Thy Father calls for thee:
No longer now an exile roam,
In guilt and misery.

Return, O wanderer, to thy homo,

Thy Saviour calls for t::
"The Spirit and the Bride Bay, Come;*

Oh, now for refuge flee!

Return, O wanderer, to thy homo,

'Tis madness to delay :
There are no pardons in (ho tomb,

And brief is mercy's dayl

,yl Y.st. 4: 1C. i\ II.

COME, trembling sinner, in whose breast
A thousand thoughts revoli
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,
And make this last resolve: —

"I'll go to Jesus, though my sins
Like mountains round me elose ;

I know his courts ; I'll enter in,
Whatever may oppose.

" Prostrate I'll lie before his throne,
And there my guilt confess ;

240 Invitations.

I'll tell him I'm a wretch undone,
Without his sovereign grace.

4 " I can but perish if I go ;
I am resolved to try;
For if I stay away, I know
I must forever die."

292 Eccl. 12: 1. C.m

REMEMBER thy Creator now,
In these thy youthful days ;
He will accept thine earliest vow,
And listen to thy praise.

2 Remember thy Creator now,

And seek him while he's near ;
For evil days will come, when thou
Shalt find no comfort near.

3 Remember thy Creator now ;

His willing servant be :
Then, when thy head in death shall bow,
He will remember thee.

4 Almighty God ! our hearts incline

Thy heavenly voice to hear ;
Let all our future days be thine,
Devoted to thy fear.

LoO lAilte 14: 22. CM

YE wretched, hungry, starving poor,
Behold a royal feast!
Where mercy spreads her bounteous stort
For every humble guest.

2 See, Jesus stands with open arms ;

He calls, he bids you come ;
Guilt holds you back, and fear alarms ;
But see, there yet is room ! —

3 Room in the Saviour's bleeding heart ;

There love and pity meet ;

Invitations. 24 1

Nor will he bid the soul depart
That trembles at his feet.

4 Oh, come, and with his children taste
The blessings of his love ;
While hope attends the sweet repast
Of nobler joys above.
I

!94 y Iaike 14: 22. CM.

THE King of heaven his table spreads,
And dainties crown the board ;
Not paradise, with all its joys,
Could such delight afford.

2 Pardon and peace to dying men,

And endless life are given,
And the rich blood that Jesus shed,
To raise the soul to heaven.

3 Millions of souls in glory now

Were fed and feasted here ;

And millions more Still on the way,
Around the board appear.

4 Yet is his house and heart so large,

That millions more may come,
Nor could the wide assembling world
O'erfill the spacious room.

295

Prov. 8 : 17. C. H.

YE hearts with youthful vigor warm,
In smiling crowds draw near,
And turn from every mortal charm
A Saviour's voice to hear.

2 He, Lord of all the worlds on high,
Stoops to converse with you,
And lays his radiant glories by,
Your friendship to pursue.

16

242

Invitations.

3 " The soul that longs to see my face

Is sure my love to gain ;
And those that early seek my grace
Shall never seek in vain."

4 What object, Lord, my soul should move,

If once compared with thee?
What beauty should command my love,
Like what in Christ I see?

5 Away, ye false, delusive toys,

Vain tempters of the mind !
Tis here I fix my lasting choice,
For here true bliss I find.

296

JLtilce 14: 22.

COME, sinner, to the gospel feast ;
Oh, come without delay ;
For there is room in Jesus' breast
For all who will obey.

2 There's room in God's eternal love

To save thy precious soul ;
Room in the Spirit's grace above
To heal and make thee whole.

3 There's room wTithin the church, redeemed

With blood of Christ divine ;
Room in the white-robed throng convened,
For that dear soul of thine.

4 There's room in heaven among the choir,

And harps and crowns of gold,
And glorious palms of victory there,
And joys that ne'er wrere told.

5 There's room around thy Father's board

For thee and thousands more :
Oh, come and welcome to the Lord;
Yea, come this very hour.

Invitations.

243

297

"Return, © Wanderer." CM:.

RETURN, O wanderer, now return,
And seek thy Father's face !
Those new desires, which in thee burn,
Were kindled by his grace.

Return, O wanderer, now return ;

He hears thy humble sigh ;
He sees thy softened spirit mourn,

When no one else is nigh.

Return, O wanderer, now return ;

Thy Saviour bids thee live :
Go to his bleeding feet, and learn

How freely he'll forgive.

Return, 0 wanderer, now return,

And wipe the falling tear ;
Thy Father calls, no longer mourn ;

His love invites thee near.

Voice of Mercy. C. M.

THE Saviour calls ; let every ear
Attend the heavenly sound ;
Ye doubting souls, dismiss your fear ;
Hope smiles reviving round.

2 For every thirsty, longing heart,

Here streams of bounty flow,
And life and health and bliss impart,
To banish mortal woe.

3 Ye sinners, come ; 'tis mercy's voice ;

That gracious voice obey ;
'Tis Jesus calls to heavenly joys ;
And can you yet delay?

4 Dear Saviour, draw reluctant hearts ;

To thee let sinners fly,
And take the bliss thy love imparts,
And drink, and never die.

244 Invitation and Exhortation.

Boxology.

LET God the Father, and the Son,
And Spirit, be adored,
Where there are works to make him known,
Or saints to love the Lord.

299

Invitation. 7s. CI.

FROM the cross uplifted high,
Where the Saviour deigns to die,
What melodious sounds we hear,
Bursting on the ravished ear! —
" Love's redeeming work is done ;
Come and welcome, sinner, come.

2 " Sprinkled now with blood the throne,
Why beneath thy burdens groan ?

On my pierced body laid,
Justice owns the ransom paid ;
Bow the knee, and kiss the Son ;
Come and welcome, sinner, come.

3 " Spread for thee, the festal board
See with richest dainties stored ;
To thy Father's bosom pressed,
Yet again a child confessed,
Never from his house to roam,
Come and welcome, sinner, come.

4 " Soon the days of life shall end ;
Lo, I come, your Saviour, Friend,
Safe your spirits to convey

To the realms of endless day,

Up to my eternal home ;

Come and welcome, sinner, come."

uUU Exhortation. 7s. 61

WEARY souls, that wander wide
From the central point of bliss,
Turn to Jesus crucified ;

Fly to those dear wounds of his ;

Invitation and Exhortation. 245

Sanctified by Jesus' blood,
Kise into the life of God.

2 Find in Christ the way of peace, —
Peace unspeakable, unknown ;

By his pain, he gives you ease,
Life by his expiring groan ;

Rise, exalted by his fall;

Find in Christ your all in all.

Oh, believe the record true !

God to you his Son hath given !
Ye may now be happy too ;

Find on earth the life of heaven ;
Live the life of heaven above,
All the life of glorious love.

j(Jl Exhortation. 7s. 61.

YE who in these courts are found,
Listening to the joyful sound, —
Lost and helpless, as ye are,
Sons of sorrow, sin, and care, —
Glorify the King of kings,
Take the peace the gospel brings.

2 Turn to Christ your longing eyes,
View his bleeding sacrifice ;
See, in him, your sins forgiven,
Pardon, holiness, and heaven :
Glorify the King of kings,
Take the peace the gospel brings.

Psalm 53. S. M.

OW gentle God's commands !
How kind his precepts are !
Come, cast your burdens on the Lord,
And trust his constant care.

H(

Beneath his watchful eye,
His saints securely dwell ;

That hand which bears all nature up
Shall guard his children well.

246 Invitation and Exhortation.

3 Why should this anxious load

Press down your weary mind ?
Haste to your heavenly Father's throne,
And sweet refreshment find.

4 His goodness stands approved,

Unchanged from day to day;
I'll drop my burden at his feet,
And bear a song away.

303 Rev. 22: 17. S.M

THE Spirit, in our hearts,
Is whispering, "Sinner, come ;"
The Bride, the Church of Christ, proclaim! J
To all his children, " Come !"

2 Let him that heareth sav

To all about him, "Come!"
Let him that thirsts for righteousness,
To Christ, the fountain, come !

3 Yes, whosoever will,

Oh, let him freely come,
And freely drink the stream of life ;
'Tis Jesus bids him come.

4 Lo ! Jesus, who invites,

Declares, " I quickly come :"
Lord, even so ! wre wait thine hour ;
O blest Redeemer, come !

304 Gen. 8: 9. S.M.

kH, cease, my wand'ring soul,
On restless wing to roam ;
All this wide world, to either pole,
Hath not for thee a home.

O'

Behold the ark of God !

Behold the open door !
Oh, haste to gain that dear abode,

And rove, my soul, no more.

The Accepted Time. 247

3 There, safe thou shalt abide,
There sweet shall be thy rest,
And every longing satisfied,
With full salvation blest.

05 2 Cor. 6: 2. S. M.

~\TOW is th' accepted time,
1M Now is the day of grace ;
O sinners ! come, without delay,
And seek the Saviour's face.

2 Now is th' accepted time,
The Saviour calls to-day ;
To-morrow it may be too late ; —
Then why should you delay ?

! 3 Now is th' accepted time,

The gospel bids you come;

And every promise in his word

Declares there yet is room.

4 Lord, draw reluctant souls,

And feast them with thy love ;
Then will the angels spread their wings,
And bear the news above.

306 Iiand of Peace. S. Mm

COME to the land of peace;
From shadows come away;
Where all the sounds of weeping cease,
And storms no more have sway.

2 Fear hath no dwelling here ;
But pure repose and love

Breathe through the bright, celestial air,
The spirit of the dove.

3 Come to the bright and blest,
Gathered from every land ;

For here thy soul shall find its rest,
Amid the shining band.

248 No Rest in the World.

4 In this divine abode,

Change leaves no saddening trace:
Come, trusting spirit, to thy God,
Thy holy resting-place.

OU/ LTohnl: 3. s. M

/^UR heavenly Father calls,
^ And Christ invites us near;
With both, our friendship shall be sweet,
And our communion dear.

2 God pities all our griefs ;

He pardons every day ;
Almighty to protect our souls,
And wise to guide our way.

3 How large his bounties are !

What various stores of good,
Diffused from our Redeemer's hand,
And purchased with his blood !

4 Jesus, our living Head,

We bless thy faithful care ;
Our Advocate'before the throne,
And our Forerunner there.

5 Here fix, my roving heart !

Here wait, my warmest love!
Till the communion be complete,
In nobler scenes above.

UUO Rest not to be found in the World. S. M.

f\B. ! where shall rest be found,—
V>^ Rest for the weary soul ?
Twere vain the ocean depths to sound,
Or pierce to either pole.

2 The world can never give

The bliss for which we sigh :
'Tis not the whole of life to live
Nor all of death to die.

The Saviour's Gracious Call, 249

3 Beyond this vale of tears,

There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.

4 There is a death whose pang

Outlasts the fleeting breath :
Oh, what eternal horrors hang
Around the second death !

5 Lord God of truth and grace !

Teach us that death to slum ;
Lest we be banished from thy lace,
And evermore undone.

oUy Matt. 11: 28-30. 7s.

COME, said Jesus' sacred voice,
Come, and make my paths your choice;
I will guide you to your borne,
Weary wanderer, hither come I

2 Thou who, homeless and forlorn.

Long hast borne the proud world's scorn,
Long hast roamed the barren waste,
Weary wanderer, hither haste.

3 Ye who, tossed bn beds of pain,
Seek for ease, hut Beek in vain;
Ye, by fiercer anguish torn.

In remorse for guilt who mourn: —

4 Hither come! for lure is found
Balm that ilows for every wound,
Peace that ever shall endure,
Rest eternal, sacred, sure.

310 JIfttt. 11: 2S. 7s.

COME, ye weary souls, oppressed,
Answer to the Saviour's call ;
"Come, and I will give you rest;
Come, and I will save you all."

250 The Saviour's Gracious Call.

2 Jesus, full of truth and love,

We thy kindest call obey,
Faithful let thy mercies prove,
Take our load of guilt away.

3 Weary of this war within,

Weary of this endless strife,
Weary of ourselves and sin,
Weary of a wretched life ;

4 Burdened with a world of grief,

Burdened with our sinful load
Burdened with this unbelief,

Burdened with the wrath of God ;-

5 Lo, we come to thee for ease,

True and gracious as thou' art :
-Now our weary souls release,
Write forgiveness on our heart.

311

KJX1 Isaiah 53: 4.

WE/R7, sinner! keeP thine eyes
y On th' atoning Sacrifice;
View him bleeding on the tree,
Touring out his life for thee.

2 Surely, Christ thy griefs hath borne:
Weeping soul, no longer mourn :
N°w by faith the Son embrace,
r-lead his promise, trust his grace.

3 Cast thy guilty soul on him;
-t ind him mighty to redeem :
At his feet thy burden lay-
-Look thy doubts and cares away.

4 ^rd' come th<>u with power to heal:
Now thy mighty arm reveal:

At thy foet myself I lay;
lake, oh, take my sins away !

7s.

S1

Expostulations. 25 1

Ezeli. 33: II. 7s.

DINNERS, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Maker, asks you, Why ?
God, who did your being give,
Made you with himself to live.

2 Sinners, turn, why will ye die ?
God, your Saviour, asks you, Why?
He who did your souls retrieve,
Died himself that you might live.

3 Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, the Spirit, asks you. Why?
He who all your lives hath strove,

Urged you to embrace his h

4 Will ye not his grace receive?
Will ye still r< fuse to In

() ye dying sinners ! why,
Why will ye forever die ?

o\0 £ph. 5: 14. 7s.

SINNER, rouse thee from thy sleep;
Wake, and o'er thy folly weep;
Raise thy spirit dark and dead;
Jesus waits his light to shed.

2 Wake from sleep, arise from death ;
See the bright and living path :
Watchful tread that path — be wise;
Leave thy folly, Beek th

3 Leave thy folly, cease from crime,
From this hour r be time ;
Life secure, without delay ;

Evil is thy mortal day.

4 House thee, sinner, from thy sleep;
Wake, and o'er thy folly weep ;
Jesus calls from death and night,
Wake, and he shall give thee light.

252 Expostulations.

314 1 Pet. 4: IS. 7s.

WHEN thy mortal life is fled,
When the death-shades o'er thee
spread,
When is finished thy career,
Sinner, where wilt thou appear ?

2 When the Judge descends in light,
Clothed in majesty and might,
When the wicked quail with fear,
Where, oh, where wilt thou appear ?

3 What shall soothe thy bursting heart,
When the saints and thou must part ?
When the good with joy are crowned,
Sinner, where wilt thou be found ?

4 While the Holy Ghost is nigh,
Quickly to the Saviour fly ;
Then shall peace thy spirit cheer ;
Then in heaven shalt thou appear.

OlO Bangei* of I>elay. „ 7s.

HASTEN, sinner ! to be wise,
Stay not for the morrow's sun ;
Wisdom, if you still despise,
Harder is it to be wTon.

2 Hasten mercy to implore,

Stay not for the morrow's sun,
Lest thy season should be o'er,
Ere this evening's stage be run.

3 Hasten, sinner ! to be blest,

Stay not for the morrow's sun,
Lest perdition thee arrest,
Ere the morrow is begun.

316

0

Piov. 18 : 24. 8s <fc 7s.

NE there is, above all others,
Well deserves the name of Friend ;

Self- Surrender. 253

His is love beyond a brother's,
Costly, free, and knows no end.

2 Which of all our friends, to save us,

Could or would have shed his blood?
But our Jesus died to have us
Reconciled in him to God.

3 When he lived on earth abased,

Friend of sinners was his name ;
Now above all glory raised,
He rejoices in the same.

4 Ob, for grace our hearts to soften,

Teach us, Lord, at length to love;
We, alas! forget too often

What a Friend we have above.

01/ Self-Surrender. s«* «fc 7s.

TAKE me, 0 my Father, take me!
Take 111 trough thy Bon ;

That which thou wouldst have me, make me,
Let thy will in me be di

2 Long from thee my fo straying,

Thorny proved tin- way 1 trod;

Weary come I now, and praying —

Take me to thy love, my God !

3 Fruitless years with grief recalling,

Humbly 1 my sin ;

At thy feet, O Father, Vailing,
To thy household take me in.

4 Freely to thee now I proffer

This relenting heart of mine;
Freely life and soul I oiler, —
Gift unworthy love like thine.

5 Father, take me! all forgiving,

Fold me to thy loving breast;
In thy love forever living,
I must be forever bie.-t.

254 yesus' Call.

318 Matt. 4: 19. 8s «fc 7s.

JESUS calls us ! o'er the tumult
Of our life's wild, restless sea,
Day by day his sweet voice soundeth,
Saying, Christian, follow me !

2 Jesus calls us, from the worship

Of the vain world's golden store ;

From each idol that would keep us,

Saying, Christian, love me more !

3 In our joys and in our sorrows,

Days of toil and hours of ease,
Still he calls, in cares and pleasures,
Christian, love me more than these !

4 Jesus calls us ! by thy mercies,

Saviour, may we hear thy call ;

Give our hearts to thy obedience,

Serve and love thee best of all.

Benediction.

"AY the grace of Christ our Saviour,
And the Father's boundless love,
With the Holy Spirit's favor,
Rest upon us from above.

Oiy Hasten to the Savionr. 8s, 7s «fc 4s.

"EAR, O sinner, mercy hails you ;
Now with sweetest voice she calls ;
Bids you haste to seek the Saviour,
Ere the hand of justice falls :

Hear, O sinner!
'Tis the voice of mercy calls,

Haste, O sinner, to the Saviour !

Seek his mercy while you may;
Soon the day of grace is over;

Soon your life will pass away:
Haste, O sinner !

You must perish if you stay.

Invitations and Expostulations. 255

OZU Look to Jesus. 8s? 7s «& 4s,

COME, ye souls by sin afflicted,
Bowed with fruitless sorrow down,
By the perfect law convicted,

Through the cross behold the crown;

Look to Jesus;
Mercy flows through him alone.

2 Take his easy yoke, and wear it ;

Love w7ill make obedience sweet;
Christ will give you strength to bear it,
While his wisdom guides your feet

Safe to glory,
Where his ransomed captives meet.

3 Sweet as home to pilgrims weary,

Light to newly-opened eyes,

Or full springs in deserts dreary,

Is the rest the cross Buppli*

All who tastt ii
Shall to rest immortal 1

Tlio 3Iossa;v^ ©!' Bterejr. Ss. 7s «fc 4s.

321

HEAR the heralds of the gospel
News from /ion's King proclaim: —
"To each rebel simur pardon;
Free forgiveness in his name;"

Oh, what mercy]
"Free forgiveness in his name."

2 Sinners, will you scorn the message

Sent in mercy from above}
Every sentence, oh, how tender!
Every line is full of love:

Listen to it;
Every line is full of love.

3 O ye angels, hovering round us,

Waiting spirits, speed your way;

256 Invitation.

Hasten to the court of heaven,
Tidings bear without delay ;

Rebel sinners
Glad the message will obey.

oZa Jesus received. 8s, 7s & 4s.

WELCOME, welcome, dear Redeemer, —
Welcome to this heart of mine;
Lord, I make a full surrender,

Every power and thought be thine, —

Thine entirely,
Through eternal ages thine.

2 Known to all to be thy mansion,
Earth and hell will disappear,
Or in vain attempt possession,

When they find the Lord is near:

Shout, O Zion!
Shout, ye saints ! the Lord is here.

O£0 Jolm 7 : 37. 8s «fc 6s.

BURDENED with guilt, wouldst thou be
blest?
Trust not the world ; it gives no rest :
I bring relief to hearts oppressed;
0 weary sinner, come!

2 Gome, leave thy burden at the cross;
Count all thy gains but empty dross ;
My grace repays all earthly loss :

O needy sinner, come!

3 Come, hither bring thy boding fears,
Thy aching heart, thy bursting tears ;
;Tis mercy's voice salutes thine ears :

0 trembling sinner, come!

4 "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come!"
Rejoicing saints re-echo, Come!

Who faints, who thirsts, wrho will, may come;
Thy Saviour bids thee come.

Clinging to Christ. 257

J^54 The Unseen Friend. 8s «fc 6s.

OHOLY Saviour ! Friend unseen !
Since on thine arm thou bid'st me lean,

1 Help me, throughout life's changing scene,
v By faith to cling to thee !

* 2 Blest with this fellowship divine,
Take what thou wilt, I'll not repine;
For, as the branches to the vine,
My soul would cling to thee.

3 What though the world deceitful prove,
And earthly friends and hopes remove;
With patient, uncomplaining love,

Still would I cling to thee.

4 Though oft I seem to tread alone

Life's dreary waste, with thorns o'ergrown,
Thy voice of love, in gentlest tone,
Still whispers, "Cling to me!"

5 Though faith and hope are often tried,
I ask not, need not, augbt beside;

So safe, so calm, so satisfied,

The soul that clings to thee!

OZO Christ's Intercession. §fl A- 6s.

OTHOU, the contrite dinner's Friend!
Who, loving, lovVt them to the end,
On this alone my hopes depend,
That thou will plead tor me.

2 When weary in the Christian race,
Far off appears my resting-place,

And, fainting, I mistrust thy grace,
Then, Saviour, plead for me.

When I have erred and gone astray,
Afar from thine and wisdom's way,
And see no glimmering, guiding ray,
Still, Saviour, plead for me.
17

25 8 Tbi Sorrowing and IV cindering invited.

4 When Satan, by my sins made bold,
Strives from thy cross to loose my hold,
Then with thy pitying arms enfold,

And plead, oh, plead for me!

5 And when my dying hour draws near,
Darkened with anguish, guilt, and fear,
Then to my fainting sight appear,

Pleading in heaven for me.

326 us <& ios

COME, ye disconsolate, where'er ye lan-
guish ;
Come to the mercy-seat, fervently kneel ;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell
your anguish ;
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot
heal.

2 Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,
Hope when all others die, fadeless and pure ;
Here speaks the Comforter, in God's name
saying,

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot
cure.

Heb. 3 : 15. 6s A 4s.

TO-DAY the Saviour calls :
Ye wTanderers, come ;
O ye benighted souls,
Why longer roam ?

2 To-day the Saviour calls ;
Oh, hear him now ;

Within these sacred walls
To Jesus bow.

3 To-day the Saviour calls ;
For refuge fly;

The storm of justice falls,
And death is nigh.

327

The Voice of Free Grace. 259

4 The Spirit calls to-day ;
Yield to his power ;
Oh, grieve him not away :
'Tis mercy's hour.

)2o Gen. 19: 7. 12s.

THE voice of free grace cries, Escape to
the mountain, [fountain ;

For Adam's lost race Christ hath opened a
For sin and uncleanness, and every trans-
gression, [salvation.
His blood flows most freely in streams of
Hallelujah to the Lamb, who hath pur-
chased our pardon,
We'll praise him again when we pass over
Jordan.

\ Ye souls that are wounded, oh, flee to the
Saviour !
He calls you in mercy ; 'tis infinite favor ;
Your sins are increasing ; escape to the

mountain ;
His blood can remove them ; it flows from
the fountain.
Hallelujah to the Lamb, etc.

> With joy shall we stand, when escaped to
the shore ;
With harps in our hands, we will praise him

the more;
We'll range the sweet plains on the banks

of the river,
And sing of salvation for ever and ever !
Hallelujah to the Lamb, etc.

John 11: 25. 12s.

THOU art gone to the grave ; but we will
not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass
the tomb ;

260 Funeral Hymn.

The Saviour hath passed through its portals

before I h
And the lampof his love is thy guide through

the -loom.

2 Thou art gone to the grave; we no longer

behold thee,
Nor tread the rough paths of the world by

thy side ;
But the wide arms of mercy are spread to

enfold thee,
And sinners may hope, for the Sinless hath

died.

3 Thou art gone to the grave ; and, its man-

sion forsaking,

Perchance thy weak spirit in doubt lingered
long ;

But the sunshine of heaven beamed bright
on thy waking,

And the sound thou didst hear was the sera-
phim's song.

330

Mel>. 3: 13-15. 6s «fc 4s,

CHILD of sin and sorrow !
Filled with dismay,
Wait not for to-morrow,
Yield thee to-day.
Heaven bids thee come ^
While yet there's room;
Child of sin and sorrow !
Hear and obey.

Child of sin and sorrow,

Why wilt thou die ?
Come while thou canst borrow

Help from on high :

Grieve not that love

Which from above,
Child of sin and sorrow,

Would bring thee nigh.

3;

331

'Jesus' Gentle Call. 26 1

Child of sin and sorrow,

Thy moments glide,
Like the flitting arrow,

Or the rushing tide ;

Ere time is o'er,

Heaven's grace implore ;
Child of sin and sorrow,

In Christ confide.

6s & 4s.

JESUS gently calls,
Weary sinner, come !
Leave the land of sin and want,
Hasten to thy happy home !
God thy Father comes to meet thee ;
Saints and angels wait to greet thee;
To thy Father and thy home,
Weary sinner, come !

2 Jesus gently calls !

We would fain obey :
Low before thy feet we fall ;
Cast us not from" thee away.
By thy blood for sinners spilt,
Cleanse us from our sin and guilt,
Be our advocate and friend,

Save us to the end.

3C Jesus, thy sweet call

Falls like evening dew
On our weary, thirsty souls,
Shedding life and strength anew.
Though to-day be full of sorrow,
Thy sweet smile can make to-morrow
Bright and clear ; O Saviour dear,

Let thy smile appear !

332

Xaike 18 : 13. I,. M.

WITH broken heart and contrite sigh,
A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry ;

262 Repentance.

Thy pardoning grace is rich and free :
O God, be merciful to me !

2 I smite upon my troubled breast,
With deep and conscious guilt oppressed;
Christ and his cross my only plea :
O God, be merciful to me !

3 Far off I stand with tearful eyes,
Nor dare uplift them to the skies ;
But thou dost all my anguish see :
O God, be merciful to me !

4 Nor alms, nor deeds that I have done,
Can for a single sin atone ;
To Calvary alone I flee :
O God, be merciful to me !

333 John 1: 29. t. M,

JUST as I am, without one plea,
But that thy blood was shed for me,
And that thou bid'st me come to thee,
O Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

2 Just as I am, and wTaiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,

To thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

3 Just as I am, though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings within, and fears without,
O Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

4 Just as I am, — poor, wretched, blind ;
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need, in thee to find,

O Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

5 Just as I am, thou wilt receive,

Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve ;
Because thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

Prayer for Pardon. 263

6 Just as I am, thy love unknown
Hath broken every barrier down ;
Now, to be thine, yea, thine alone,

0 Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

O04 Psalm 51. L. 31.

A BROKEN heart, my God, my King,
Is all the sacrifice I bring ;
The God of grace will ne'er despise
A broken heart for sacrifice.

2 My soul lies humbled in the dust,
And owns thy dreadful sentence just ;
Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye,
And save the soul condemned to die.

3 Then will I teach the world thy ways ;
Sinners shall learn thy sovereign grace;
I'll lead them to my Saviour's blood,
And they shall praise a pardoning God.

4 Oh, may thy love inspire my tongue!
Salvation shall be all my song ;
And all my powers shall join to bl<
The Lord, my Strength and liighteousin

OO 0 Prayer for Pardon. I*. M.

OH that my load of sin were gone!
Oh that I could at last submit
At Jesus' feet to lay it down, —
To lay my soul at Jesus' feet I

2 Rest for my soul I long to find :

Saviour of all, if mine thou art.
Give me thy meek and lowly mind,
And stamp thine image un my heart.

3 Break off the yoke of inbred sin,

And fully set my spirit free :

1 cannot rest till pure within,
Till I am wholly lost in thee.

264 Prayers for Pardon.

4 Fain would I learn of thee, my God ;

Thy light and easy burden prove;
The cross all stained with hallowed blood,
The labor of thy dying love.

5 I would, but thou must give the power ;

My heart from every sin release ;
Bring near, bring near the joyful hour,
And fill me with thy perfect peace !

OOO Psalm 51. I*. M .

SHOW pity, Lord! O Lord, forgive!
Let a repenting rebel live ;
Are not thy mercies large and free ?
May not a sinner trust in thee ?

2 My crimes are great, but ne'er surpass
The power and glory of thy grace :
Great God ! thy nature hath no bound,
So let thy pardoning love be found.

3 Oh, wash my soul from every sin,
And make my guilty conscience clean !
Here on my heart the burden lies,
And past offences pain mine eyes.

4 My lips with shame my sins confess,
Against thy law, against thy grace ;
Lord, should thy judgment grow severe,
I am condemned, but thou art clear.

5 Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord !
Whose hope, still hovering round thy word,
Would light on some sweet promise there,
Some sure support against despair.

OO I Rom. 5:1. I*. ML

rpHOU Prince of glory, slain for me,
-*- Breathing forgiveness in thy prayer ;
That loving, melting look I see,

That bursting sigh, that tender tear.

Prayers for Pardon. 265

2 Can I behold that closing eye,
Still fixed on me, still beaming love ?

And can I see my Saviour die,
ISTor feel one holy passion move ?

3 Let me but hear thy dying voice
Pronounce forgiveness in my breast ;

My trembling spirit shall rejoice,
And feel the calm of" heavenly rest.

4 Lord, thine atoning blood apply,
And life or death is sweet to me ;

In life's last hour, thy presence, nigh,
From fear shall set my spirit free.

OOO The Sinner reconciled to God. I*, JK.

TREMBLING before thine awful throne,
O Lord ! in dust my sins I own ;
Justice and Mercy for my life
Contend ; oh, smile and heal the strife.

2 The Saviour smiles! upon my soul
New tides of hope tumultuous roll ;
His voice proclaims my pardon found,
Seraphic transport wings the sound.

3 Earth has a joy unknown in heaven, — ■
The new-born peace of sin forgiveD !
Tears of such pure and deep delight,
Ye angels, never dimmed your sight.

4 Ye saw of old, on chaos rise

The beauteous pillars of the skies :
Ye know where morn exulting springs,
And evening folds her drooping wings.

5 Bright heralds of th' eternal Will,
Abroad his errands ye fulfil ;

Or, throned in floods of beamy day,
Symphonious, in his presence play.

6 But I amid your choirs shall shine,
And all your knowledge will be mine :
Ye on your harps must lean to hear
A secret chord that mine will bear.

266 "Justification by Faith.

w

339 Phil. 3: 7-9. T,. M.

~0 more, my God, I boast no more
Of all the duties I have done;
I quit the hopes I held before,
To trust the merits of thy Son.

2 Now, for the love I bear his name,

What was my gain, I count my loss ;
My former pride I call my shame,
And nail my glory to his cross.

3 Yes, and I must and will esteem

All things but loss for Jesus' sake ;
Oh, may my soul be found in him,
And of his righteousness partake !

4 The best obedience of my hands

Dares not appear before thy throne ;
But faith can answer thy demands,
By pleading what my Lord has done.

340 Isaiah 61: 10. Ii. M.

JESUS ! thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress ;
'Mid flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.

2 When from the dust of earth I rise
To claim my mansion in the skies ;
E'en then shall this be all my plea :
" Jesus hath lived and died for me."

3 This spotless robe the same appears,
When ruined nature sinks in years ;
No age can change its glorious hue ;
The robe of Christ is ever new.

4 Oh, let the dead now hear thy voice ;
Now bid thy banished ones rejoice ;
Their beauty this, their glorious dress, — •
Jesus ! thy blood and righteousness !

l

Choosing Christ. 267

341 Rom. 1 : 16. I<. M.

THOUGH all the world my choice deride,
Yet Jesus shall my portion be ;
For I arn pleased with none beside ;
The fairest of the fair is he.

2 Sweet is the vision of thy face,

And kindness o'er thy lips is shed;
Lovely art thou, and full of grace,
And glory beams around thy head.

3 Thy sufferings I embrace with thee,

Thy poverty and shameful cross;
The pleasures of the world I fl<
And deem its treasures only dross.

4 Be daily dearer to my heart,

And ever let me feel thee near;
Then willingly with all I'd part,

Is or count it worthy of a tear.

S'J

342 Psalm 51: 11. I,. M.

[TAY, thou insulted Spirit, stay!
Though I have done thee such despite,

Cast not a sinner quite away,

Nor take thine everlasting flight.

2 Though I have most unfaithful been

Of all who e'er thy grace received;
Ten thousand time- thy goodness seen,
Ten thousand times thy goodness grieved;

3 Yet, oh, the chief of sinners spare,

In honor of my great High Priest !
Nor, in thy righteous anger, swear
I shall not see thy people's rest.

343 The mood of Christ. C. M.

FOREVER here my rest shall be,
Close to thy bleeding side ;

268 Repentance.

This all my hope and all my plea, —
For me the Saviour died.

2 My dying Saviour, and my God,

Fountain for guilt and sin,
Sprinkle me ever with thy blood,
And cleanse and keep me clean.

3 Wash me, and make me thus thine own:

Wash me, and mine thou art ;

Wash me, but not my feet alone, —

My hands, my head, my heart.

4 Th' atonement of thy blood apply,

Till faith to sight improve ;
Till hope in full fruition die,
And all my soul be love.

344 Jer. 3: 22. CM.

HOW oft, alas ! this wretched heart
Has wandered from the Lord !
How oft my roving thoughts depart,
Forgetful of his word !

2 Yet sovereign mercy calls, " Keturn !"

Dear Lord, and may I come ?
My vile ingratitude I mourn :
Oh, take the wanderer home !

3 And canst thou, wilt thou yet forgive,

And bid my crimes remove ?

And shall a pardoned rebel live,

To speak thy wondrous love ?

4 Almighty grace, thy healing power,

How glorious, how divine !
That can to life and bliss restore
A heart so vile as mine.

5 Thy pard'ning love, so free, so sweet,

Dear Saviour, I adore ;
Oh, keep me at thy sacred feet,
And let me rove no more !

Coming to Jesus. 269

04b ILiifce 15 : 17-21. C. M-

A STRANGER in a barren land,
Weary and faint I roam ;
Why did I scorn a Father's yoke,
Or leave my happy home ?

2 I will arise, I will return

And seek my Father's face;
Tell him my sorrow, sin, and shame,
And plead his pardoning grace.

3 O Father, thy poor, sinful child

Returns, at length, to thee!
Unworthy to be called thy son,
Let me thy servant be !

4 He meets me yet a great way off,

And clasps me to his breast ;
He takes me to his home again,
And gives the wanderer rest.

Doxolosy.

LET God the Father, and the Son,
And Spirit be adored,

Where there are works to make him known,
Or saints to love the Lord.

u40 The Voice of Jesus. €. M.

I HEARD the voice of Jesus say,
"Come unto me and rest ;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down
Thy head upon my breast.19

I came to Jesus as I was,

Weary and worn and sad ;
I found in him a resting-place,

And he has made me glad.

2 I heard the voice of Jesus say,
11 Behold, I freely give
The living water! thirsty one,
Stoop down, and drink, and live."

270 Prayer for Mercy,

I came to Jesus, and I drank

Of that life-giving stream :
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,

And now I live in him.

3 I heard the voice of Jesus say,

" I am this dark world's light :
Look unto me ; thy morn shall rise,

And all thy day be bright."
I looked to Jesus, and I found

In him my Star, my Sun ;
And in that light of life I'll walk

Till all my journey's done.

Psalni 51. C. M*

347

TURN not thy face awray, O Lord !
From them that lowly lie,
Lamenting sore their sinful life

With tears and bitter cry.
Thy mercy-gate stands open wide
To them that mourn their sin ;
Shut not that gate against us, Lord !
But let us enter in.

2 Thou knowest, Lord, what things be past,

And all the things that be ;
Thou knowest well what is to come ;

There's nothing hid from thee.
So press we to thy mercy-gate,

Where mercy doth abound,
Imploring pardon for our sin,

To heal our deadly wound.

3 O Lord ! we need not to repeat

What we do beg and crave ;
For thou dost know, before we ask,

The blessings we would have.
Mercy, O Lord ! we mercy seek ;

This is the height and sum ;
For mercy, Lord, is all our prayer,

Oh, let thy mercy come !

S(

Faith in God. 271

348 Psalm 27. C. M.

OON as I heard my Father say,
" Ye children, seek my grace,"
My heart replied without delay,
" I'll seek my Father's face.5'

2 Let not thy face be hid from me,
Nor frown my soul away ;

God of my life, I fly to thee,
In each distressing day.

3 My fainting flesh had died with grief,
Had not my soul believed

Thy grace would soon provide relief;
Nor was my hope deceived.

4 AVait on the Lord, ye trembling saints,
And keep your courage up ;

He'll raise your spirit when it faints,
And far exceed your hope.

u4y Prov. 2.J: 2(J. V. ■.

Y God, accept my heart this day,
And make it always thine ;
That I from thee no more may Btcaj,
No more from tint' decline.

2 Before the cross of Hi in who died,
Behold, I prostrate tall ;
Let every sin be crucified,

Let Christ be all in all.

00 0 Ilosea 11: 1. €. ML

OTHOU, whose tender mercy hears
Contrition's humble sigh ;
Whose hand indulgent wipes the tears
From sorrow's weeping eye; —

2 See, Lord, before thy throne of grace,
A wretched wanderer mourn ;
Hast thou not bid me seek thy face ?
Hast thou not said, "Return" ?

w

272 Joys of the Penitent.

3 And shall my guilty fears prevail

To drive me from thy feet?
Oh, let not this dear refuge fail,
This only safe retreat !

4 Oh, shine on this benighted heart,

With beams of mercy sjiine !
And let thy healing voice impart
The sense of joy divine.

351 Lukelo: 7. CM.

OH, how divine, how sweet the joy,
When but one sinner turns,
And with an humble, broken heart,
His sins and errors mourns !

2 Pleased with the news, the saints below

In songs their tongues employ ;
Beyond the skies the tidings go,
And heaven is filled wTith joy.

3 Well pleased the Father sees and hears

The conscious sinner's moan ;

Jesus receives him in his arms,

And claims him for his own.

4 Nor angels can their joys contain,

But kindle with new fire ; —
"The sinner lost is found," they sing,
And strike the sounding lyre.

oOZ Penitence. CM.

WE sinners, Lord, with earnest heart,
With sighs and prayers and tears,
To thee our inmost cares impart,
Our burdens and our fears.

2 Thy sovereign grace can give relief,
Thou Source of peace and light !
Dispel the gloomy cloud of grief,
And make our darkness bright.

Repentance and Self- Devotion, 273

3 Around thy Father's throne on high,

All heaven thy glory sings ;
And earth, for which thou cani'st to die,
Loud with thy praises rings.

4 Dear Lord ! to thee our prayers ascend ;

Our eyes thy face wTould see :
Oh ! let our weary wanderings end,
Our spirits rest in thee !

30O Matt. 27: 45. C M.

ALAS! and did my Saviour bleed?
And did my sovereign die ?
Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I ?

2 Was it for crimes that I had done

He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity ! grace unknown !
And love beyond degn

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,

And shut his glories in,
When God, the mighty Maker, died
For man the creature's sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face,

While his dear cross appears ;
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,

And melt mine eyes to tears.

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay

The debt of love I owe :
Here, Lord, I give myself away ;
'Tis all that I can do.

OO^i Repentance. C. M,

EAR Saviour, when my thoughts recall
The wonders of thy grace,
Low at thy feet, ashamed, I fall,
And hide this wretched face.

18

D!

274 Prayer for Grace.

2 Shall love like thine be thus repaid ?

Ah, vile, ungrateful heart !
By earth's low eares so oft betrayed
From Jesus to depart.

3 But he, for his own mercy's sake,

My wandering soul restores ;
He bids the mourning heart partake
The pardon it implores.

4 Oh, while I breathe to thee, my Lord,

The deep, repentant sigh,
Confirm the kind, forgiving word,
With pity in thine eye !

5 Then shall the mourner at thy feet

Rejoice to seek thy face ;
And grateful, own how kind, how sweet
Thy condescending grace !

ODD "Grace to Help." S. 31. Double.

THOU art gone up on high,
To realms beyond the skies;
And round thy throne unceasingly

The songs of praise arise.
But we are lingering here,

With sin and care oppressed ;
Lord, send thy promised Comforter,
And lead us to thy rest.

2 Thou art gone up on high ;

But thou didst first come down,
Through earth's most bitter misery,

To pass unto thy crown ;
And girt with griefs and fears,

Our onward course must be ;
But only let this path of tears

Lead us at last to thee.

3 Thou art gone up on high ;

But thou shalt come again,
With all the bright ones of the sky
Attendant in thy train.

The Lost Sheep Found. 275

Lord, by thy saving power,

So make us live and die,
That we may stand, in that dread hour,

At thy right hand on high.

356 1 Pet. 2: 25. S. M.

I WAS a wandering sheep ;
I did not love the fold ;
I did not love my Shepherd's voice ;
I would not be controlled.

2 I was a w7ayward child ;

I did not love my home ;
I did not love my Father's voice ;
I loved afar to roam.

3 The Shepherd sought his sheep ;

The Father Bought his child ;
They followed me o'er vale and hill,
O'er deserts waste and wild.

4 They found me nigh to death,

Famished and faint and lone;
They bound me with the bands of love;
They saved the wandering one.

5 Jesus my Shepherd is ;

'Twas he that 1ov<m1 my soul;
'Twas he that washed me in his blood;
'Twas he that made me whole.

6 'Twas he that sought the lost,

That found the wandering sheep ;
'Twas he that brought me to the fold;
'Tis he that still doth keep.

357

The Hitlden Snare. S. M.

MY Saviour bids me come;
Ah ! why do I delay ?
He calls the weary sinner home,
And yet from him I stay !

276 Repentance.

2 What worldly tie must break?

What idol yet depart,
Which will not let the Saviour take
Possession of my heart ?

3 Jesus, the hindrance show

Which I have feared to see ;
And let me now consent to know
What keeps me back from thee.

4 Oh ! break the fatal chain,

And all my bonds remove ;
Nor let one bosom-sin remain,
To keep me from thy love.

OOO Psalm 32. S. M.

OH, blessed souls are they
Whose sins are covered o'er !
Divinely blest to whom the Lord
Imputes their guilt no more.

2 They mourn their follies past,

And keep their hearts with care ;
Their lips and lives without deceit
Shall prove their faith sincere.

3 While I concealed my guilt,

I felt the festering wound ;
Till I confessed my sins to thee,
And ready pardon found.

4 Let sinners learn to pray,

Let saints keep near the throne ;
Our help in times of deep distress
Is found in God alone.

QUO Rom. 2: 4. S. M.

TS this the kind return ?
Are these the thanks we owe?
Thus to abuse eternal Love,
Whence all our blessings flow?

r

Prayer for Mercy. 277

2 To what a stubborn frame

Hath sin reduced our mind !
What strange rebellious wretches we !
And God as strangely kind !

3 Turn, turn us, mighty God,

And mould our souls afresh ;
Break, sovereign Grace, these hearts of
stone,
And give us hearts of flesh.

4 Let past ingratitude

Provoke our weeping eyes,
And hourly, as new mercies fall,
Let hourly thanks arise.

jOU Prayer for Mercy. S. M.

THOU gracious God and kind,
Oh, cast our sins away;
Nor call our former guilt to mind,
Thy justice to display.

2 Thy tenderest mercies show,

Thy richest grace prepare,

Ere yet, with guilty fears laid low,
We perish in despair.

3 Save us from guilt and shame,

Thy glory to display;
And, for the great Redeemer's name,
Wash all our sins away.

361

Jlntt. 86 : 73. 7s, Cs, & 8s.

JESUS, let thy pitying eye
Call back a wandering sheep ;
False to thee, like Peter, I

Would fain like Peter weep.
Let me be by grace restored,

On me be all long-suffering shown,
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,
And break my heart of stone.

278 Repentance and Faith.

2 Saviour, Prince, enthroned above,

Repentance to impart,
Give me, through thy dying love,

The humble, contrite heart.
Give what I have long implored,

A portion of thy grief unknown;
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,

And break my heart of stone.

3 See me, Saviour, from above,

Nor suffer me to die ;
Life and happiness and love

Beam from thy gracious eye.
If thy mercies now are stirred,

If now I do myself bemoan,
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,

And break my heart of stone.

362

Matt. 11 : 19. 7s, 6s, «fc 8s.

GOD of my salvation, hear,
And help me to believe ;
Simply do I now draw near

Thy blessing to receive :
Full of guilt, alas ! I am,

But to thy wounds for refuge flee:
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.

2 Standing now as newly slain,

To thee I lift mine eye ;
Balm of all my grief and pain,

Thy blood is always nigh.
Now as yesterday the same

Thou art, and wilt forever be :
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,

Thy blood was shed for me.

3 Saviour, from thy wounded side

I never will depart ;
Here will I my spirit hide,
When I am pure in heart :

Repentance and Faith. 279

Till my place above I claim,
This only shall be all my plea ;

Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.

fUU Repentance. 7a»

DEPTH of mercy ! can there be
Mercy still reserved for me ?
Can my God his wrath forbear ?
Me, the chief of sinners, spare ?

I I have long withstood his grace,
Long provoked him to his face,
Would not hearken to his calls,
Grieved him by a thousand falls.

\ Lord, incline me to repent ;
Let me now my fall lament,
Deeply my revolt deplore,
Weep, believe, and sin no more.

4 Still for me the Saviour stands,

Shows his wounds, and spreads his hands:
God is love! I know, I feel ;
Jesus weeps, and loves me still.

j04 Prayer for Pardon. 7s.

JESL^S, save my dying soul ;
Make the broken spirit whole :
Humble in the dust I lie :
Saviour, leave me not to die.

2 Jesus, full of every grace,
Now reveal thy smiling face;
Grant the joy of sin forgiven,
Foretaste of the bliss of heaven.

3 All my guilt to thee is known ;
Thou art righteous, thou alone :
All my help is from thy cross,
All beside I count but loss.

280 Repentance and Faith.

4 Lord, in thee I now believe ;
Wilt thou, wilt thou not forgive?
Helpless at thy feet I lie ;
Saviour, leave me not to die.

365 I.olcc23:33. 7s.

WHEN on Sinai's top I see
God descend, in majesty,
To proclaim his holy law,
All my spirit sinks with awre.

2 When in ecstasy sublime,
Tabor's glorious steep I climb,
At the too transporting light,
Darkness rushes o'er my sight.

3 When on Calvary I rest,
God, in flesh made manifest,
Shines in my Redeemer's face,
Full of beauty, truth, and grace.

4 Here I wrould forever stay,
Weep and gaze my soul away;
Thou art heaven on earth to me,
Lovely, mournful Calvary.

ODD Psalin 6: 1, 2. 1

GENTLY, gently, lay the rod
On my sinful head, O God !
Stay thy wTrath, in mercy stay,
Lest I sink beneath its sway.

2 Heal me, for my flesh is weak ;
Heal me, for thy grace I seek ;
This my only plea I make, —
Heal me for thy mercy's sake.

3 Lo ! he comes — he heeds my plea ;
Lo ! he comes — the shadows flee ;
Glory round me dawns once more ;
Rise, my spirit, and adore.

Prayer for Mercy. 281

OU / Prayer for Blessing . 8s & 7s.

LORD, I hear that showers of blessing
Thou art scattering, full and free, —
Showers the thirsty land refreshing;
Let thy blessing fall on me.

2 Long have I in sin been straying,

Long been grieving, slighting thee;
Slight me not as I stand praying;
Oh, forgive and comfort me!

3 Pass me not, O gracious Saviour,

Sinful though my heart may be ;
Give me tokens of thy favor,

Speak some word of grace to me.

4 Love of God, so pure and changeless,

Blood of Christ, so rich and free,
Grace of God, so strong and boundless, —
Magnify it all to me!

5 Pass me not; thy lost one bringing,

Bind my heart, O Lord, to thee :
While the streams of life are springing!
Blessing others, oh, bless me!

ODO Lnke 9 : 2.3. 8s «fc 7s.

JESUS, I my cross have taken,
All to leave and follow thee;
Naked, poor, despised, forsaken,
Thou, from hence, my all shalt be.

2 Perish every fond ambition,

All I've sought, or hoped, or known,
Yet how rich is my condition,

God and heaven are still my own !

3 Man may trouble and distress me ;

'Twill but drive me to thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press me;
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

282 Leaving all for Christ.

4 Oh ! 'tis not in grief to harm me,
While thy love is left to me ;
Oh! 'twere not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with thee.

369

s

1, 11 See 9 : 23. 8s «$: 7s.

OUL, then know thy full salvation,
Kise o'er sin, and fear, and care;

Joy to find in every station,
Something still to do or bear.

2 Think what Spirit dwells within thee ;

Think what Father's smiles are thine;
Think that Jesus died to win thee;
Child of heaven, canst thou repine?

3 Haste thee on from grace to glory,

Armed by faith, and winged by prayer ;
Heaven's eternal day's before thee,

God's own hand shall guide thee there.

4 Soon shall close thy earthly mission,

Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days,
Hope shall change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.

O/U "Take my Heart." 8s A 7s.

TAKE my heart, O Father, take it!
Make and keep it all thine own :
Let thy Spirit melt and break it, —
This proud heart of sin and stone.

2 Father, make it pure and lowly,

Fond of peace and far from strife;
Turning from the paths unholy
Of this vain and sinful life.

3 Ever let thy grace surround it;

Strengthen it with power divine,
Till thy cords of love have bound it:
Make it to be wholly thine.

Coming to Christ. 283

4 May the blood of Jesus heal it,
And its sins be all forgiven ;
Holy Spirit, take and seal it,
Guide it in the path to heaven.

371 Matt. 11: 28-30. 8s «fc 7s.

LABORING and heavy laden
With my sins, O Lord, I roam,
While I know thou hast invited
All such wanderers to their home.

2 Make my stubborn spirit willing
To obey thy gracious voice,

At the cross to leave its burden,
And departing to rejoice.

3 Thy sweet yoke? Fd take upon me,

And would learn, () Lord, of thee;
Thou art meek in heart, and lowly;
Teach me like thyself to be.

4 Laboring and heavy laden,

Lord, no longer will I roam:
Here I fix my habitation,

In thy sheltering love at home.

0 1 Li Repentance. 8s<£7s.

JESUS! who on Calv'iVa mountain
Poured thy precious blood for me,
Wash me in its flowing fountain,
That my soul may spotless be.

2 I have sinned, but, oh, restore me;

For unless thou smile on me,
Dark is all the world before me,
Darker yet eternity!

3 In thy word I hear thee saying,

"Come, and I will give you rest;"
Glad the gracious call obeying,
See, I hasten to thy breast.

284 Pleading with God.

4 Grant, oh, grant thy Spirit's teaching,
That I may not go astray,
Till, the gate of heaven reaching,
Earth and sin are passed away !

373 Matt. V7 ;8. 8s «fc 7s.

JESUS only, when the morning
Beams upon the path I tread;
Jesus only, when the darkness
Gathers round my weary head.

2 Jesus only, when the billows

Cold and sullen o'er me roll;
Jesus only, when the trumpet

Rends the tomb and wakes the soul.

3 Jesus only, Avhen, adoring,

Saints their crowns before him bring;
Jesus only, I will, joyous,
Through eternal ages sing.

O / t: liitany. 7s.

SAVIOUR, when in dust to thee
Low wre bow th' adoring knee ;
When repentant, to the skies
Scarce we lift our streaming eyes ;
Oh, by all thy pains and woe,
Suffered once for man below,
Bending from thy throne on high,
Hear our solemn litany.

2 By thy birth and early years,
By thy human griefs and fears,
By thy fasting and distress

In the lonely wilderness,
By thy vict'ry in the hour
Of the subtle tempter's power;
Jesus, look with pitying eye,
Hear our solemn litany.

3 By thine hour of dark despair,
By thine agony of prayer,

H<

Trinity invoked. 285

By the purple robe of scorn,

By thy wounds, thy crown of thorn,

By thy cross, thy pangs and cries,

By thy perfect sacrifice ;

Jesus, look with pitying eye,

Hear our solemn litany.

By thy deep expiring groan,
By the sealed sepulchral stone,
By thy triumph o'er the grave,
By thy power from death to save ;
Mighty God, ascended Lord,
To thy throne in heaven restored,
Prince and Saviour, hear our cry,
Hear our solemn litany.

O/O Trinity invoked. 7s.

OLY Father, hear my cry;
Holy Saviour, bend thine ear;
Holy Spirit, come thou nigh:
Father, Saviour, Spirit, hear!

2 Father, save me from my sin ;

Saviour, 1 thy mercy crave;

Gracious Spirit, make me dean :
Father, Sun, and Spirit, siv

3 Father, let me taste thy love ;

Saviour, iill my soul with peace;
Spirit, come my heart to move:
Father, Son, and Spirit, blesfi !

4 Father, Son, and Spirit — Thou

One Jehovah, shed abroad
All thy grace within me now ;
Be my Father ami my God!

0/0 Isaiah 53: 3. 7s <fc 6s.

I LAY my sins on Jesus,
The spotless Lamb of God ;
He bears them all and frees us,
From the accursed load.

286 Repentance and Faith.

I bring my guilt to Jesus,
To wash my crimson stains

White in his blood most precious,
Till not a stain remains.

2 I lay my wants on Jesus,

All fulness dwells in him;
He heals all my diseases,

He doth my soul redeem :
I lay my griefs on Jesus,

My burdens and my cares ;
He from them all releases,

He all my sorrow shares.

3 I rest my soul on Jesus,

This weary soul of mine ;
His right hand me embraces,

I on his breast recline.
I love the name of Jesus,

Immanuel, Christ, the Lord ;
Like fragrance on the breezes,

His name abroad is poured.

4 I long to be like Jesus,

Meek, loving, lowly, mild ;
I long to be like Jesus,

The Father's holy Child :
I long to be with Jesus

Amid the heavenly throng,
To sing with saints his praises,

To learn the angels' song.

377

John 6 : 68. 7s «ft 6s.

WE stand in deep repentance
Before thy throne of love ;
O God of grace, forgive us,

The stain of guilt remove ;
Behold us while wTith weeping

We lift our eyes to thee;
And all our sins subduing,
Our Father set us free.

Repentance and Faith. 287

2 Oh ! shouldst thou from us fallen

Withhold thy grace to guide,
Forever we should wander

From thee, and peace, aside ;
But thou to spirits contrite

Dost light and life impart,
That man may learn to serve thee

With thankful, joyous heart.

3 Our souls, on thee we cast them,

Our only refuge thou !
Thy cheering words revive us,

When pressed with grief we bow :
Thou bear'st the trusting spirit

Upon thy loving breast,
And givest all thy ransomed

A sweet, unending rest.

O i O Psalm 20. 7s «fc 6s.

TPHE Lord in trouble hear thee,
JL And help from ZioD Bend ;
The God of grace be near thee

To comfort and befriend !
Thy human weakness strengthen,

Thy earthly wants supply,
Thy span of nature lengthen

To endless life on high !

2 Above his own anointed

His banner bright shall wave:
Their times are all appointed ;

The Lord his flock will save:
Through life's deceitful mazes,

Their steps will safely bear ;
Accept their feeble praises,

And hear their every prayer.

O /y Justification by Faith. C. P. H.

OTHOU who hear'st the prayer of faith,
Wilt thou not save a soul from death,

C

288 Justification by Faith.

That casts itself on thee ?
I have no refuge of my own,
But fly to what my Lord hath done,

And suffered once for me.

2 Slain in the guilty sinner's stead,
His spotless righteousness I plead,

And his availing blood :
That righteousness my robe shall be,
That merit shall atone for me,

And bring me near to God.

3 Then save me from eternal death,
The Spirit of adoption breathe,

His consolations send :
By him some word of life impart,
And sweetly whisper to my heart,

"Thy Maker is thy friend."

4 The King of terrors then would be
A welcome messenger to me,

To bid me come away :
Unclogged by earth, or earthly things,
I'd mount upon his sable wings

To everlasting day.

OOU John 3: 3. C. P. M.

AWAKED by Sinai's awful sound,
My soul in bonds of guilt I found,
And knew not where to go ;
One solemn truth increased my pain,
" The sinner must be born again,"
Or sink to endless woe.

2 I heard the law its thunders roll,
While guilt lay heavy on my soul,

A vast oppressive load ;
All creature-aid I saw was vain ;
"The sinner must be born again,"

Or drink the wrath of .God.

<

81

Redeeming Love. 289

The saints I heard with rapture tell,
How Jesus conquered death and hell

To bring salvation near ;
Yet still I found this truth remain,
"The sinner must be born again/'

Or sink in deep despair.

But while I thus in anguish lay,

The bleeding Saviour passed that way,

My bondage to remove ;
The sinner, once by justice slain,
Now by his grace is born again,

And sings redeeming love.

.Icsus. most Holy.

JESUS, most holy,
Pray I to thee ;
My sinful fetters,

Lord, break from me ;
Take this sad spirit,
Mourning for sin,
Back to thy bosom, —
Lord, take me in !

2 Over the mountains,
Long have I strayed ;

Cold winds of sorrow
Round me have played ;

None to bring comfort,
None have I found ;

While tears of anguish
Watered the ground.

3 To this dear refuge,
Now have I fled ;

Jesus, thy kind heart

For me hath bled ;
Take now the wanderer •

Home to thy rest,
Under thy kind wings,

Sheltered and blest.
19

290 Prayer for Mercy.

1

382

LORD, in this thy mercy's day,
Ere it pass for aye away,
On our knees we fall and pray.

2 Lord, on us thy Spirit pour,
Kneeling lowly at the door
Ere it close for evermore.

3 By thy night of agony,
By thy supplicating cry,
By thy willingness to die ;

4 By thy tears of bitter woe
For Jerusalem below,
Let us not thy love forego.

5 Grant us 'neath thy wings, a place,
Lest we lose this day of grace,
Ere we shall behold thy face.

383 Jer. 8: 20; 12: 5. 12s «fc 8s.

WHEN the harvest is past, and the sum-
mer is gone,
And sermons and prayers shall be o'er;
When the beams cease to break of the blest f
Sabbath morn,
And Jesus invites thee no more ;

2 When the rich gales of mercy no longer shall

blow,
The gospel no message declare, —
Sinner, how canst thou bear the deep wailing

of woe,
How suffer the night of despair?

3 When the holy have gone to the regions of

peace,
To dwell in the mansion above ;
When their harmony wakes, in the fulness

of bliss,
Their song to the Saviour of love, —

Entreaty. 29 1

Say, O sinner, that livest at rest and secure,
Who fearest no trouble to come,

Can thy spirit the swellings of sorrow endure,
Or bear the impenitent's doom ?

■t Shepherd-Call.

COME, wand'ring sheep, oh, come !
I'll bind thee to my breast ;
I'll bear thee to thy home,
And lay thee down to rest.

2 I saw thee stray forlorn ;

I heard thee faintly cry ;
And on the tree of scorn,
For thee I deigned to die.

3 I shield thee from alarms,

And wilt thou not be blest?
I bear thee in my arms,

Thou, bear me in thy breast.

Hcholri the Man! P. 31.

0 SINNER, lilt the eve of faith,
To true repentance turning;
Bethink thee of the curse of sin,

Its awful Lruilt discerning:
Upon the crucified <>ne look,
And thou shah read, as in a book,
What well is worth thy learning.

Look on his head, that bleeding head,
With crown of thorns surrounded;

Look on his sacred hand.- and feet
Which piercing nails have wounded:

See every limb with scourges rent!

On him, the dust, the Innocent,
What malice hath abounded!

292 Lesson of the Cross.

3 Tis not alone those limbs are racked,

But friends, too, are forsaking ;
And more than all, for thankless man

That tender heart is aching.
Oh, fearful was the pain and scorn
By Jesus, Son of Mary, borne.

Their peace for sinners making !

4 None ever knew such pain before,

Such infinite affliction ;
None ever felt a grief like his

In that dread crucifixion.
For us he bare those bitter throes,
For us those agonizing woes,

In oft-renewed infliction.

0 sinner, mark and ponder well
Sin's awful condemnation ;

Think what a sacrifice it cost
To purchase thy salvation :

Had Jesus never bled and died,

Then what could thee and all betide,
But uttermost damnation !

Lord, give us grace to flee from sin,
And Satan's wiles ensnaring,

And from those everlasting flames
For evil ones preparing:

Jesus, we thank thee, and entreat

To rest forever at thy feet,
Thy heavenly glory sharing.

SECTION VI.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

i.) God our Refuge, Portion, Strength,
and Joy. His Grace, Mercies,
Counsels, Care, and Love. Trust-
ing, Resting, and Rejoicing in
God.

').) Looking unto Jesus. Friend of Sin-
ners. Fount of Blessings. Glory-
ing in Christ's Cross. His Blood
and Righteousness. His Sym-
pathy and Intercession. The
Good Shepherd. Trusting and
Resting in Christ. Love Divine.
Light in Darkness. Always with
us. Sweet Moments at his Cross.
Longing to be with Jesus. Not
ashamed of Jesus. Lamb of Cal-
vary. Lover of my Soul. Rock
of Ages.

?.) Songs in the Night. Trials, Sor-
rows, Afflictions.

i.) Songs by the Way. Christian Pil-
grimage. Prayer 8 for Guidance.
Encoiiragcmcii Is. Rejoicings.

e.) Graces and Duties. Purity, Stead-
fastness, Faith, Meekness, love,
Christian Fellowship, Zeal, etc.

f.) Prayer. What Prayer is. The
Mercy - Seat. lord's Prayer.
Power of Prayer. Calls to
Prayer. Importunity.

41 By the grace of God I am what I am."— 1 Cor. 15: 10.

293

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

job Psalm 146. L. M.

GOD of my life ! through all my days
My grateful powers shall sound thy
praise ;
The song shall wake with opening light,
And warble to the silent night.

2 When anxious care would break' my rest,
And grief would tear my throbbing breast,
Thy tuneful praises raised on high

Shall check the murmur and the sigh.

3 When death o'er nature shall prevail,
And all my powers of language fail,
Joy through my swimming eves shall break,
And mean the thanks I cannot speak.

But, oh! when that last conflict's o'er,
And I am chained to flesh no more,
With what glad accents shall I rise
To join the music of the skies !

OO/ Psalm 121. t. 31.

UP to the hills I lift mine eyes,
Th' eternal hills beyond the skies ;
Thence all her help my soul derives;
There my almighty Refuge lives.

2 He lives — the everlasting God

That built the world, that spread the flood ;
The heavens with all their hosts he made,
And the dark regions of the dead.

3 He guides our feet, he guards our way ;
His morning smiles bless all the day ;
He spreads the evening veil, and keeps
The silent hours, while Israel sleeps.

295

296 The Christian Life.

OOO Psalm 31. Jj.m

LORD, in thy great, thy glorious name,
I place my hope, my only trust ;
Save me from sorrow, guilt, and shame,
Thou ever gracious, ever just.

2 Thou art my rock ! thy name alone

The fortress where my hopes retreat ;
Oh, make thy power and mercy known ;
To safety guide my wandering feet.

3 Blest be the Lord, forever blest,

Whose mercy bids my fears remove ;
The sacred walls which guard my rest
Are his almighty power and love.

OQhJ Psalm 138. !L. M.

WITH all my powers of heart and tongue,
I'll praise my Maker in my song ;
Angels shall hear the notes I raise,
Approve the song, and join the praise.

2 To God I cried when troubles rose ;
He heard me, and subdued my foes ;
He did my rising fears control,

And strength diffused through all my soul.

3 Amid a thousand snares, I stand
Upheld and guarded by thy hand ;
Thy words my fainting soul revive,
And keep my dying faith alive.

4 I'll sing thy truth and mercy, Lord ;
I'll sing the wonders of thy word ;
Not all thy works and names below
So much thy power and glory show.

Oo U Renunciation of the World. I*. M.

I SEND the joys of earth away;
Away, ye tempters of the mind,

The Christian Life. 297

False as the smooth, deceitful sea,
And empty as the whistling wind !

t Your streams were floating me along,
Down to the gulf of black despair ;
And while I listened to your song,

Your streams had e'en conveyed me there.

Lord ! I adore thy matchless grace,
Which warned me of that dark abyss,

Which drew me from those treacherous seas,
And bade me seek superior bliss.

Now to the shining realms above

I stretch my hands and glance my eyes;

Oh for the pinions of a dove,
To bear me to the upper sk:

5 There, from the bosom of my God,
Oceans of endless pleasure roll ;
There would I fix my last abode,
And drown the sorrow.- of my soul !

Oo 1 John 81 r»s. L.X.

THOU only Sovereign of my heart,
My Refuge, my almighty Friend,

And can my soul from thee depart,

On whom alone my hopes depend?

2 Whither, ah ! whither shall I go,

A wretched wanderer from my Lord?
Can this dark world of Bin and woe
One glimpse of happiness afford J

3 Eternal life thy words impart ;

On these my fainting spirit lives;
Here sweeter comforts cheer my heart
Than all the round of nature gives.

4 Let earth's alluring joys combine ;

While Thou art near, in vain they call!
One smile, one blissful smile of thine,
My dearest Lord, outweighs them all.

298 God our Refuge and Strength.

5 Low at thy feet my soul would lie ;

Here safety dwells, and peace divine ;
Still let me live beneath thine eye,
For life, eternal life, is thine.

392

Rom. 8: 35-39.

i

A MIGHTY fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing:
Our Helper he, amid the flood

Of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe ;
His craft and power are great,
And armed with equal hate,
On earth is not his equal.

2 Did we in our own strength confide,

Our striving would be losing;
Were not the right man on our side,

The man of God's own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he ;
Lord Sabaoth is his name,
From age to age the same,

And he must win the battle.

3 And though this world, with devils filled,

Should threaten to undo us ;
We will not fear, for God hath willed

His truth to triumph through us.
The Prince of darkness grim, —
We tremble not for him ;
His rage we can endure,
For lo! his doom is sure, —

One little word shall fell him !

4 That word above all earthly powers-

No thanks to them — abideth ;
The Spirit and the gifts are ours
Through him who with us sideth.

God our Refuge and Strength. 299

Let goods and kindred go,
This mortal life also :
The body they may kill :
God's truth abideth still,
His kingdom is forever.

393

REJOICE to-day with one accord,
Sing out with exultation.
Rejoice and praise our mighty Lord,

Whose arm hath brought salvation.
His works of love proclaim
The greatness of his name;
For he is God alone,
Who hath his mercy shown ; —
Let all his saints adore him!

2 When in distress to him we cried,
He heard our sad complaining;

Oh, trust in him, whate'er betide,
His love is all-sustaining.

Triumphant songs of praise

To him our hearts shall raise:

Now every voice shall say,

"Oh, praise our God alway!''
Let all his saints adore him!

394

Rom. 13: 11. S. M.

YOUR harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take:
Loud to the praise of love divine
Bid ev'ry string awake.

2 Though in a foreign land,

We are not far from home;
And nearer to our house above
^Ye every moment come.

3 Jlis grace will to the end

Stronger and brighter shine;

300 The Christian Life.

Nor present things, nor things to come,
Shall quench the spark divine.

4 When we in darkness walk,

Nor feel the heavenly flame,
Then is the time to trust our God,
And rest upon his name.

5 Soon shall our doubts and fears

Subside at his control;
His loving-kindness shall break through
The midnight of the soul.

6 Blest is the man, O Lord,

Who stays himself on thee ;
Who waits for thy salvation, Lord,
Shall thy salvation see.

\JOU 1 Cor. 10: 31. S. M.

TEACH me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see;
And what I do in anything,
To do it as for thee !

2 To scorn the senses' sway,

While still to thee I tend;
In all I do, be thou the way,
In all, be thou the end.

3 All may of thee partake;

Nothing so small can be
But draws, when acted for thy sake,
Greatness and worth from thee.

4 If done beneath thy laws,

E'en servile labors shine;
Hallowed is toil, if this the cause;
The meanest work, divine.

396

Psalm 23. S.M.

THE Lord my Shepherd is ;
I shall be well supplied :

God's Wondrous Grace. 30 1

Since he is mine, and I am his,
What can I want beside?

2 He leads me to the place

Where heavenly pasture grows ;
Where living waters gently pass,
And full salvation flows.

3 If e'er I go astray,

He doth my soul reclaim;
And guides me, in his own right way,
For his most holy name.

4 While he affords his aid,

I cannot yield to fear; [shade,

Though I should walk through death's dark
My Shepherd's with me there.

5 The bounties of thy love

Shall crown my following days;
Nor from thy house will I remove,

Nor cease to speak thy praise.

Jy / 1 John ft: 1. ft. 8. M.

BEHOLD, what wondrous grace
The Father has bestowed

On sinners of B mortal race.
To call them Bona of ( tod !

2 Nor doth it yet appear

How great we must be made ;
But when we see our Saviour here,
We shall be like our Head.

3 A hope so much divine

May trials well endure;
May purify our souls from sin,
As Christ, the Lord, is pure.

4 If in my Father's love

I share a filial part,
Send down thy Spirit, like a dove,
To rest upon my heart.

302 Confidence in God's Love and Wisdom.

5 We would no longer lie

Like slaves beneath the throne ;
Our faith shall "Abba, Father," cry,
And thou the kindred own.

398 Psalm 27 : 14. S. M.

GIVE to the winds thy fears,
Hope, and be undismayed ;
God hears thy sighs, and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.

2 Through waves, through clouds and storms,

He gently clears thy way ;
Wait thou his time ; so shall this night
Soon end in joyous day.

3 Far, far above thy thought

His counsel shall appear,
When fully he the work hath wrought
That caused thy needless fear.

4 What though thou rulest not !

Yet heaven and earth and hell
Proclaim, God sitteth on the throne,
And ruleth all things well !

dyy Psalm 55. S. M.

LET sinners take their course,
And choose the road to death,
But in the worship of my God
I'll spend my daily breath.

2 My thoughts address his throne,

When morning brings the light ;
I seek his blessing every noon,
And pay my vows at night.

3 Thou wTilt regard my cries,

O my eternal God !
While sinners perish in surprise,
Beneath thine angry rod.

Following Christ. 303

4 Because they dwell at ease,

And no sad changes feel,
They neither fear, nor trust thy name,
Nor learn to do thy will.

5 But I, with all my cares,

Will lean upon the Lord ;
I'll cast my burdens on his arm,
And rest upon his word.

400 "The Eternal God is thy Refuge." C. M.

IMMORTAL Power, Eternal One,
With thee what can compare ?
Thy glory shines in heaven and earth,

And fills the ambient air.
All time, all space, by thee illumed,

Grows bright and brighter still,
Obedient to thy high behest,
And to thy sovereign will.

2 To thee dominion sole belongs,

And 'tis to thee alone,
My Father, Saviour, living God,

I make my sorrows known :
Thy love, celestial and divine,

Descends upon my heart,
Inspiring courage, hope, and joy,

And bidding grief depart.

3 Protected by thy power and love,

My body sinks to rest ;
My soul, within thy heavenly arms,

Reposes, calm and blest.
Lord of my life, in darkest night

I sleep and have no fear,
And in the early dawn of day

I wake and find thee near.

401 Following Christ. C. M.

THE Son of God goes forth to war,
A kingly crown to gain ;
His blood-red banner streams afar ; —
Who follows in his train ?

3°4

Divine Mercies.

Who best can drink his cup of woe,

Triumphant over pain ;
Who patient bears his cross below, —

He follows in his train.

The martyr first, whose eagle eye

Could pierce beyond the grave ;
Who saw his Master in the sky,

And called on him to save.
Like him, with pardon on his tongue

In midst of mortal pain,
He prayed for them that did the wrong ; —

Who follows in his train?

A glorious band, the chosen few

On whom the Spirit came ;
Twelve valiant saints, their hope they knew,

And mocked the cross and flame.
They met the tyrant's brandished steel,

The lion's gory mane,
They bowed their necks, the death to feel ; —

Who follows in their train ?

A noble army, men and boys,

The matron and the maid,
Around the Saviour's throne rejoice,

In robes of light arrayed.
They climbed the steep ascent of heaven,

Through peril, toil, and pain ;
O God, to us may grace be given

To follow in their train.

402

Divine Mercies. C. M.

WHEX all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love, and praise !

Unnumbered comforts on my soul

Thy tender care bestowed,
Before my infant heart conceived

From whom those comforts flowed.

The Higher Life. 305

3 When, in the slippery paths of youth,

With heedless step I ran,
Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe,
And led me up to man.

4 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts

My daily thanks employ ;
Nor is the least a cheerful heart,
That tastes those gifts with joy.

5 Through every period of my life

Thy goodness Fll pursue ;
And, after death, in distant worlds,
The glorious theme renew.

40u Col. 3: 1-4. CM.

H, happy soul, that lives on high,

O1

While men lie grovelling here !
His hopes are fixed above the sky,
And faith forbids his fear.

2 His conscience knows no secret stings,

While peace and joy combine
To form a life, whose holy springs
Are hidden and divine.

3 He waits in secret on his God ;

His God in secret sees :
Let earth be all in arms abroad ;
He dwells in heavenly peace.

4 His pleasures rise from things unseen,

Beyond this world of time,
Where neither eyes nor ears have been,
Nor thoughts of mortals climb.

5 He wants no pomp nor royal throne,

To raise his honor here :
Content and pleased to live unknown,
Till Christ his life appear.
20

306 The Christian Life.

404 Psalm 116. C. M.

LOVE the Lord ; he heard my cries,
And pitied every groan :
Long as I live, when troubles rise,
I'll hasten to his throne.

i

2 I love the Lord; he bowed his ear,

And chased my grief away :
Oh, let my heart no more despair,
While I have breath to pray !

3 The Lord beheld me sore distressed,

He bade my pains remove :
Return, my soul, to God, thy rest,
For thou hast known his love !

4 My God hath saved my soul from death,

And dried my falling tears ;
Now to his praise I'll spend my breath,
And my remaining years.

4UO Psalm 73. C. M.

OD, my supporter and my hope,
My help forever near,
Thine arm of mercy held me up,
When sinking in despair.

2 Thy counsels, Lord, shall guide my feet
Through this dark wilderness ;

Thy hand conduct me near thy seat,
To dwell before thy face.

3 Were I in heaven without my God,
'Twould be no joy to me ;

And while this earth is my abode,
I long for none but thee.

4 What if the springs of life were broke,
And flesh and heart should faint ?

God is my soul's eternal rock,
The strength of every saint.

&

God our Portion and Strength. 307

5 Then, to draw near to thee, my God,
Shall be my sweet employ :
My tongue shall sound thy works abroad,
And tell the world my joy.

4UD Psalm 126. C. M.

WHEN God revealed his gracious name,
And changed my mournful state,
My rapture seemed a pleasing dream,
The grace appeared so great.

2 The world beheld the glorious change,

And did thy hand confess :
My tongue broke out in unknown strains,
And sung surprising grace.

3 The Lord can clear the darkest skies,

Can give us day for night ;
Make drops of sacred sorrow rise
To rivers of delight.

4 Let those who sow in sadness wait

Till the fair harvest come :
They shall confess their sheaves are great,
And shout the blessings home.

hSjI Psalm 115. CM*

SWEET is the memory of thy grace,
My God, my heavenly King;

Let age to age thy righteousness
In sounds of glory sing.

2 God reigns on high; but ne'er confines

His goodness to the skies :
Thro' the whole earth his bounty shines,
And every want supplies.

3 With longing eyes thy creatures wait

On thee for daily food ;
Thy liberal hand provides their meat,
And fills their mouth with good.

308 The Christian Life.

4 How kind are thy compassions, Lord !

How slow thine anger moves !
But soon he sends his pardoning word
To cheer the souls he loves.

5 Sweet is the memory of thy grace,

My God, my heavenly King ;
Let age to age thy righteousness
In sounds of glory sing.

A AO "His tender mercies are over all his
4UO works." C. M.

THY goodness, Lord, our souls confess;
Thy goodness we adore:
A spring, whose blessings never fail ;
A sea without a shore.

2 Sun, moon, and stars, thy love attest

In every golden ray;
Love draws the curtains of the night,
And love brings back the day.

3 Thy bounty every season crowns,

With all the bliss it yields;
"With joyful clusters loads the vines,
With strengthening grain, the fields.

4 But chiefly thy compassion, Lord,

Is in the gospel seen ;
There, like a sun, thy mercy shines,
Without a cloud between.

5 There pardon, peace, and holy joy,

Through Jesus' name are given;
He on the cross was lifted high,
That we might reign in heaven.

4HJy God's Covenant Sure. C. M.

I KNOW thy thoughts are peace toward
Safe am I in thy hands; [me;

Firmly I build my hope on thee,
For sure thy counsel stands.

Faith in God's Covenant. 309

2 Whate'er thy word hath promised, all
Wilt thou full surely give !

Wherefore, from thee I will not fall;
Thy word doth make me live.

Though mountains crumble into dust,

Thy cov'nant stand eth fast ;
Who follows thee in pious trust,

Shall reach the goal at last.

4 Though strange and winding seems the way,
While yet on earth I dwell,
In heaven my heart shall gladly say,
Thou, God, dost all things well.

410 1 Cor. 3: 21-23. CM.

IF God is mine, then present things
And things to come are mine;

Yea, Christ, his Word, and Spirit, too,
And glory all divine.

If he is mine, then from his love

He every trouble Bends;
All things arc working for my good,

And bliss his rod attends.

3 If he is mine, let friends forsake,

Let wealth and honor tlee ;

Sure he who giveth pae himself

Is more than these to me.

4 Oh, tell me, Lord, that thou art mine!

What can I wish beside?

My soul shall at the fountain live,
When all the streams are dried.

411 G on. 28: 19-22. CM.

OGOD of Bethel ! by whose hand
Thy people still are fed ;
Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led, —

910 The Christian Life.

2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present

Before thy throne of grace;
God of our lathers, be the God
Of their succeeding race.

3 Through each perplexing path of life

Our wand'ring footsteps guide;
Give us, each day, our daily bread,
And raiment fit provide.

4 Oh, spread thy covering wings around,

Till all our wand'rings cease,
And at our Father's loved abode,
Our souls arrive in peace.

4 1 u Benevolence of €rO<Ts Decrees. C. M.

SINCE all the varying scenes of time
' God's watchful eye surveys,
Oh, who so wise to choose our lot,
Or to appoint our ways?

2 Good, when he gives, supremely good;

Nor less when he denies :
E'en crosses, from his sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.

3 Why should we doubt a Father's love,

So constant and so kind?
To his unerring, gracious wTill,
Be every wish resigned.

4 In thy fair book of life divine,

My God, inscribe my name ;
There let it fill some humble place
Beneath my Lord the Lamb.

41 vJ Psalm 125. CM.

TTXSHAKEX as the sacred hill,
vJ And fixed as mountains be,
Firm as a rock the soul shall rest,
That leans, O Lord, on thee!

2 Not walls, nor hills, could guard so well
Old Salem's happy ground,

Trust in God.

311

As those eternal arms of love,
That every saint surround.

3 Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere,
And lead them safely on
To the bright gates of paradise,
Where Christ, their Lord, is gone.

414 Gal. 6: 14. CM.

LET worldly minds the world pursue ;
It has no charms for me;
Once I admired its trifles, too,
But grace has set me free.

2 Its pleasures now no longer please,

No more content afford ;
Far from my heart be joys like these,
Now I have seen the Lord.

3 As by the light of opening day

The stars are all concealed;
So earthly pleasures fade away
When Jesus is revealed.

4 Creatures no more divide my choice,

I bid them all depart;
His name and love and gracious voice
Have fixed my roving heart.

415 Rom. 8: 15. CM.

MY Father, God ! how sweet the sound,
How tender and how dear!
Not all the melody of heaven
Could so delight the ear.

2 Come, sacred Spirit, seal the name

On my expanding heart ;
And show, that in Jehovah's grace
I share a filial part.

3 Cheered by a signal so divine,

Unwavering I believe ;
My spirit Abba, Father! cries,
Nor can the sign deceive.

312 The Christian Life.

416

2 Pet. 1:10. CM.

WHEN I can read-my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I bid farewell to every fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes.

2 Should earth against my soul engage,

And fiery darts be hurled,
Then I can smile at Satan's rage,
And face a frowning world.

3 Let cares like a wild deluge come,

And storms of sorrow fall ;
May I but safely reach my home,
My God, my heaven, my all ! —

4 There shall I bathe my weary soul

In seas of heavenly rest;
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.

417

Psalm 73 : 25. C. M.

MY God, my portion, and my love,
My everlasting All !
I've none but thee in heaven above,
Or on this earthly ball.

2 To thee we owe our wealth and friends,

And health and safe abode ;
Thanks to thy name for meaner things,
But they are not my God.

3 How vain a toy is glittering wealth,

If once compared with thee !
Or what's my safety or my health,
Or all my friends to me ?

4 Were I possessor of the earth,

And called the stars my own,
Without thy graces and thyself,
I were a wretch undone.

Self-Consecration. 313

5 Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore ;
Grant me the visits of thy face,
And I desire no more.

4lO The Grace W God. CHI.

A ELSE, my soul ! my joyful powers,
And triumph in my God !
Awake, my voice ! and loud proclaim
His glorious grace abroad.

2 The arms of everlasting love
Beneath my soul be placed,

And on the Rock of Ages set
My slippery footsteps fast.

3 The city of my blest abode
Is walled around with grace;

Salvation for a bulwark stands,
To shield the sacred place.

4 Arise, my soul! awake, my voice!
And tunes of pleasure sing;

Loud hallelujahs shall address
My Saviour and my King.

419 P*nlm 116. C. JK.

WHAT shall I render to my God,
For all his kindness shown?
My feet shall visit thine abode,
My songs address thy throne.

2 Among the saints that fill thy house,

My offerings shall be paid ;
There shall my zeal perform the vows
My soul in anguish made.

3 Now I am thine, forever thine,

Nor shall my purpose move ;
Thy hand hath loosed my bonds of pain,
And bound me with thy love.

2 14 The Christian Life.

4 Here in thy courts I leave my vow,
And thy rich grace record ;
Witness, ye saints, who hear me now,
If I forsake the Lord.

w

420 " Herein is IiOve." €. M,

"Y God, how wonderful thou art !
Thy majesty how bright !
How glorious is thy mercy-seat,
In depths of burning light !

2 Yet I may love thee too, O Lord,

Almighty as thou art ;
For thou hast stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart.

3 No earthly father loves like thee,

No mother half so mild
Bears and forbears, as thou hast done
With me, thy sinful child.

4 My God, how wonderful thou art,

Thou everlasting Friend !
On thee I stay my trusting heart,
Till faith in vision end.

HtiA God our Guide. CM.

OH, what a lonely path were ours,
Could we, O Father, see
No home of rest beyond it all,
No guide, no help in thee !

2 But thou art near and with us still,

To guide us in the way
That leads along this vale of tears
To the bright realms of day.

3 There shall thy glory, O our God,

Break fully on our view,
And we, thy saints, rejoice to find
That all thy word was true.

Adoption. 315

c HcZZ Adoption.— Hel>. 12: 7. CM.

MY God, my Father, blissful name!
Oh, may I call thee mine?
May I with sweet assurance claim
A portion so divine ?

2 Whate'er thy providence denies,
I calmly would resign,

For thou art good and just and wise :
Oh, bend my will to thine !

3 Whate'er thy sacred will ordains,

Oh, give me strength to bear !
And let me know my Father reigns,
And trust his tender care.

4 Thy sovereign ways are all unknown

To my weak, erring sight ;
Yet let my soul adoring own
That all thy ways arc right.

4/lU Mark 9: 24. CM.

LORD, I believe ; thy power I own,
Thy word 1 would obey;
I wander comfortless and lone,
When from thy truth I stray.

2 Lord, I believe ; but gloomy fears

Sometimes bedim my sight;
I look to thee with prayers and tears,
And cry for strength and light.

3 Yes ! I believe ; and only thou

Canst give my soul relief:
Lord! to thy truth my spirit bow;
"Help thou mine unbelief!"

fiZ^r God's Great 3Iercics. Jj. M.

"OW do thy mercies close me round !
Forever be thy name adored !
I blush in all things to abound ;
The servant is above his Lord.

H<

316 The Christian Life.

2 Inured to poverty and pain,

A suffering life my Master led ;
The Son of God, the Son of man,
He had not where to lay his head.

3 But lo ! a place he hath prepared

For me, whom watchful angels keep ;
Yea, he himself becomes my guard ;

He smooths my bed, and gives me sleep.

4 Jesus protects ! My fears begone !

What can the Eock of Ages move ?
Safe in thine arms I lay me down, —
Thine everlasting arms of love.

1

11

Psalm 116. I4. M.

425

RETURN, my soul, and sweetly rest
On thy almighty Father's breast ;
The bounties of his grace adore,
And count his wTondrous mercies o'er.

2 Thy mercy, Lord, preserved my breath,
And snatched my fainting soul from death ;
Removed my sorrows, dried my tears,
And saved me from surrounding snares.

3 What shall I render to the Lord ?
Or how his wondrous grace record ?
To him my grateful voice I'll raise,
With just thanksgiving to his praise.

4 O Zion ! in thy sacred courts,
Where glory dwells and joy resorts,
To notes divine I'll tune the song,

And praise shall flow from every tongue.

4^0 Jer. 10:23. Ii. M.

WHITHER, oh, whither should I fly,
But to my loving Father's breast ?
Secure within thine arms to lie,
And safe beneath thy wings to rest.

Resting in God's Mercy and Providence. 317

2 In all my ways thy hand I own,

Thy ruling providence I see ;
Assist me still my course to run,
And still direct my paths to thee.

3 I have no skill the snare to shun ;

But thou, O God, my wisdom art ;
I ever into ruin run ;

But thou art greater than my heart.

4 Foolish and impotent and blind,

Lead me a way I have not known,
Bring me where I my heaven may find,
The heaven of loving thee alone.

4^7 Psalm G2. L. 3f.

MY spirit looks to God alone;
My rock and refuge is his throne;
In all my fears, in all my straits,

My soul on his salvation waits.

2 Trust him, ye saints, in all your ways
Pour out your hearts before his face;
When helpers fail, and foes invade,
God is our all-sufficient aid.

4zlO Psalm 7.$: M. CM.

OLORD! I would delight in thee,
And on thy care depend ;
To thee in every trouble flee,

My best, my only Friend.

2 When all created streams are dried,

Thy fulness is the same :

May I with this he satisfied,

And glory in thy name !

3 No good in creatures can be found,

But may be found in thee ;
I must have all things, and abound,
While God is God to me.

gjS The Christian Life.

4 O Lord ! I cast my care on thee ;
I triumph and adore ;
Henceforth my great concern shall be
To love and please thee more.

429 Psalm 34. C. M.

THROUGH all the changing scenes of life,
In trouble and in joy,
The praises of my God shall still
My heart and tongue employ.

2 Of his deliverance I will boast,

Till all who are distressed
From my example comfort take,
And charm their griefs to rest.

3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

With me exalt his name !
When in distress to him I called,
He to my rescue came.

4 The hosts of God encamp around

The dwellings of the just ;
Deliverance he affords to all
Who on his succor trust.

5 Oh, make but trial of his love :

Experience will decide
How blest are they, and only they,
Who in his truth confide.

6 Fear him, ye saints, and ye will then

Have nothing else to fear ;
Make ye his service your delight,
He'll make your wants his care.

4oU Psalm 36: 9. C. M.

ETERNAL Sun of righteousness,
Display thy beams divine,
And cause the glory of thy face
Upon my heart to shine.

Experience of God's Love. 3 in

2 Light, in thy light, oh, may I see,

Thy grace and mercy prove,
Revived and cheered and blest by thee,
The God of pardoning love.

3 Lift up thy countenance serene,

And let thy happy child
Behold, without a cloud between,
The Father reconciled.

4 On me thy promised peace bestow,

The peace by Jesus given ; —
The joys of holiness below,
And then the joys of heaven.

LO\ Things Visible and Invisible.—

■±0 1 Rom. 1 : 20. C. Jff .

THERE is a book who runs may read,
Which heavenly truth imparts,
And all the lore its scholars need,
Pure eyes and Christian hearts.

2 The works of God above, below,

Within us and around,
Are pages in that book to show
How God himself is found.

3 Two worlds are ours; 'tis only sin

Forbids us to descry
The mystic heaven and earth within,
Plain as the sea and sky.

4 Thou who hast given me eyes to see

And love this sight so fair,
Give me a heart to find out thee,
And read thee everywhere.

4:0 £ Titns 3: 5-7. CM.

LORD, we confess our numerous faults,
How great our guilt has been ;
Foolish and vain were all our thoughts,
And all our lives were sin.

320 The Christian Life.

2 But, 0 my soul ! forever praise,

Forever love his name,
Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways
Of folly, sin, and shame.

3 'Tis not by works of righteousness,

Which our own hands have done ;
But we are saved by sovereign grace,
Abounding through his Son.

4 'Tis from the mercy of our God

That all our hopes begin ;
'Tis by the water and the blood
Our souls are washed from sin.

r

433 Rom. 5 s3. CM. $

"S not the way to heavenly gain
Through earthly grief and loss ?
Best must be won by toil and pain, —
The crown repays the cross.

2 In tears and trials thou must sow

To reap in joy and love ;
We cannot find our home below,
And hope for one above.

3 As woods, when shaken by the breeze,

Take deeper, firmer root ;
As winter's frosts but make the trees
Abound in summer fruit;

4 So every heaven-sent pang and throe

That Christian firmness tries,
But nerves us for our work below,
And forms us for the skies.

434 The Covenant.— Heb. 13: 20. CM.

MY God, the covenant of thy love
Abides forever sure ;
And in its matchless grace I feel
My happiness secure.

.

"raise.

321

2 Since thou, the everlasting God,

My Father art become,
Jesus my Guardian and my Friend,
And heaven my final home ; —

3 I welcome all thy sovereign will,

For all that will is love ;
And when I know not what thou dost,
I wait the light above.

4 Thy covenant in the darkest gloom

Shall heavenly rays impart,
And when my eyelids close in death,
Sustain my fainting heart.

tOO Psalm 136. C. M.

OH, praise the Lord ! for he is good ;
In him we rest obtain,
His mercy has througli ages stood,
And ever shall remain.

2 Let all the people of the Lord

His praises spread around ;
Let them his grace and love record,
Who have salvation found.

3 Now let the east in him rejoice,

The west its tribute bring,
The north and south lift up their voice
In honor of their King.

4 Oh, praise the Lord ! for he is good;

In him we rest obtain :
His mercy has through ages stood,
And ever shall remain.

4oO Psalm 4: 4. ¥,. M.

RETURN, my roving heart, return,
And life's vain shadows chase no more;
Seek out some solitude to mourn,
And thy forsaken God implore.
21

322 The Christian Life.

2 0 thou great God ! whose piercing eve

Distinctly marks each deep retreat,

In these sequestered hours draw nigh,

And let me here thy presence meet.

3 Through all the windings of my heart,

My search let heavenly wisdom guide,
And still its beams unerring dart,
Till all be known and purified.

4 Then let the visits of thy love,

My inmost soul be made to share,
Till every grace combine to prove

That God has fixed his dwelling there.

437 « Rest in God," L. M,

FATHER, beneath thy sheltering wing,
In swreet security we rest ;
And fear no evil earth can bring ;
In life, in death, supremely blest.

2 For life is good whose tidal flow

The motions of thy will obeys ;
And death is good, that makes us know
The Love Divine that all things sways.

3 And good it is to bear the cross,

And so thy perfect peace to win;
And naught is ill, nor brings us loss,
Nor works us harm, save only sin !

4 Redeemed from sin wre ask no more,

But trust the love that saves, to guide ;
The grace that yields so rich a store
Will grant us all we need beside.

4oO Isaiah 7: 14. I*. M.

OH, sweetly breathe the lyres above,
When angels touch the quivering string,
And wake, to chant Immanuel's love,
Such strains as angel-lips can sing !

Comfort in the Love of God. 323

' And sweet, on earth, the choral swell,

From mortal tongues, of gladsome lays ;
When pardoned souls their raptures tell,
And, grateful, hymn Immanuel's praise.

Jesus, thy name our souls adore ;

We own the bond that makes us thine ;
And carnal joys that charmed before,

For thy dear sake wre now resign.

Our hearts, by dying love subdued,
Accept thiue offered grace to-day ;

Beneath the cross, with blood bedewed,
We bow, and give ourselves away.

In thee we trust, — on thee rely ;

Though we are feeble, thou art strong;
Oh, keep us till our spirits fly

To join the bright, immortal throng!

I>ox«losy.

P

•RALSE God, from whom all blessings flow!
Praise him, all creatures here below!
Praise him above, ye heavenly host !

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost I

Psalm 119: 151. EuM.

i39

GLOVE divine! that stooped to share
Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear,
On thee we east each earth-born care,
We smile at pain while thou art near.

\ Though long the weary way we tread,
And sorrow crown each lingering year,
No path we shun, no darkness dread,

Our hearts still whispering thou art near.

\ When drooping pleasure turns to grief,
And trembling faith is changed to fear,
The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf,
Shall softly tell us thou art near.

324 The Christian Life.

4 On thee we fling our burdening woe,
O Love divine, forever dear ;
Content to suffer while we know,
Living or dying, thou art near!

44U Matt. 6: 10. L.ag

MY God, my Father, while I stray
Far from my home, on life's rough way,
Oh, teach me from my heart to say,
"Thy will be done!"

2 What though in lonely grief I sigh
For friends beloved no longer nigh ;
Submissive still would I reply,

"Thy will be done!"

3 If thou shouldst call me to resign
What most I prize, — it ne'er was mine ;
I only yield thee what was thine:

"Thy will be done!"

4 If but my fainting heart be blest
With thy sweet Spirit for its guest,
My God, to thee I leave the rest;

"Thy will be done!"

5 Renew my will from day to day ;
Blend it with thine, and take away
Whate'er now makes it hard to say,

"Thy will be done!"

>6 Then when on earth I breathe no more
The prayer oft mixed with tears before,
I'll sing upon a happier shore,
"Thy will be done!"

441 1 John 4: 8. Ii.M.

I CANNOT always trace the way
Where thou, Almighty one, dost move ;
But I can always, always say,
That God is love.

Faith and *Joy. 325

When fear her chilling mantle throws

O'er earth, my soul to heaven above,
As to her native home, upsprings,
For God is love.

When mystery clouds my darkened path,

I'll check my dread, my doubts reprove,
In this my soul sweet comfort hath,
That God is love.

Yes, God is love; — a thought like this
Can every gloomy thought remove,
And turn all tears, all woes, to bliss,
For God is love.

t4^ John II: 19. I,. If.

WHEX sins and fears prevailing rise,
And fainting hope almost expires,

Jesus, to thee 1 lift my ej

To thee J breathe my soul's desires.

If my immortal Saviour li
Then my immortal life is sure;

His word a linn foundation gives;
Sere let me build and rest secure.

\ Here let my faith unshaken dwell ;
Immovable the promise stands;
Not all the powers of earth or hell

Can e'er dissolve the sacred hands.

4 Here, () my soul! thy trust repose:
If Jesus is forever mine,
Not death itself, that last of I
[Shall break a union so divine.

44\J A «ood Conscience.— 1 Peter 3 : 16. L,. 31.

SWEET peace of eonseience, heavenly
guest,
Come, fix thy mansion in my breast;
Dispel my doubts, my fears control,
And heal the anguish of my soul.

326 The Christian Life,

2 Come, smiling hope, and joy sincere,
Come, make your constant dwelling here;
Still let your presence cheer my heart,
Nor sin compel you to depart.

3 O God of hope and peace divine !
Make thou these secret pleasures mine ; f!
Forgive my sins, my fears remove,

And fill my heart with joy and love.

444 Contentment.— Phil. 4 : 11. I*. M.

OLORD, how full of sweet content
Our years of pilgrimage are spent!
Where'er wTe dwell, we dwell with thee,
In heaven, in earth, or on the sea.

2 To us remains nor place nor time;
Our country is in every clime:

We can be calm and free from care
On any shore, since God is there.

3 While place we seek, or place we shun,
The soul finds happiness in none ;

But with our God to guide our way,
'Tis equal joy to go or stay.

445 Psalm 63. Ii. M.

OGOD, thou art my God alone:
Early to thee my soul shall cry, —
A pilgrim in a land unknown,

A thirsty land where springs are dry.

2 Yet through this rough and thorny maze,

I follow hard on thee, my God :
Thy hand unseen upholds my ways ;
I safely tread where thou hast trod.

3 Thee, in the watches of the night,

When I remember on my bed,
Thy presence makes the darkness light ;
Thy guardian wings are round my head.

Longing for God. 327

4 Better than life itself thy love,
Dearer than all beside to me;
For whom have I in heaven above,
Or what on earth compared with thee?

U /ifc "Ola, that I knew where I might find
440 Him!"— Job 23: 3, 4. €. M.

OH that I knew the secret place
Where I might find my God !
I'd spread my wants before his face,
And pour my woes abroad.

2 I'd tell him how my sins arise,

What sorrows I sustain ;
How grace decays, and comfort dies,
And leaves my heart in pain.

3 He knows what arguments I'd take

To wrestle with my God :
I'd plead for his own mercy's sake, —
I'd plead my Saviour's blood.

4 My God will pity my complaints,

And drive my foes away;
He knows the meaning of his .-aims,
When they in sorrow pray.

5 Arise, my soul ! from deep distress,

And banish every fear ;
He calls thee to his throne of grace,
To spread thy sorrows there.

ft A7 " Iiord. remember me."— Luke 23: 12.
44 / C. ■.

THOU from whom all goodness flows,

0

I lift my soul to thee ;
. In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,
O Lord, remember me !

When on my aching, burdened heart

My sins lie heavily,
Thy pardon grant, new peace impart ;

Then, Lord, remember me !

0

328 The Christian Life.

3 When trials sore obstruct my way,

And ills I cannot flee,
Oh, let my strength be as my day;
Dear Lord, remember me !

4 When in the solemn hour of death

I wait thy just decree;
Be this the prayer of my last breath :
Now, Lord, remember me !

5 And when before thy throne I stand,

And lift my soul to thee,
Then with the saints at thy right hand,
O Lord, remember me !

The Comforter. C. M.

THOU who driest the mourner's tear !
How dark this world would be,
If, when deceived and wounded here,
We. could not fly to thee!

2 When joy no longer soothes or cheers,

And e'en the hope that threw
A moment's sparkle o'er our tears
Is dimmed and vanished too ; —

3 Oh, who would bear life's stormy doom,

Did not thy wing of love
Come brightly wafting through the gloom
Our peace-branch from above ?

4 Then sorrow touched by thee grows bright,

With more than rapture's ray ;
As darkness shows us worlds of light
AVe never saw by day.

Gen. 5:24. CM.

^H for a closer walk with God,

A calm and heavenly frame,

A light to shine upon the road

That leads me to the Lamb !

O'

,

Thirsting for God. 329

[2 Where is the blessedness I knew
When first I saw the Lord ?
Where is the soul-refreshing view
Of Jesus and his word?

3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still !

But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.]

4 Return, O holy Dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest ;

I hate the sins that made thee mourn,
And drove thee from my breast.

5 The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be,

Help me to tear it from thy throne,
And worship only thee.

6 So shall my walk be close with God,

Calm and serene my frame ;
So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.

450 PMta M. C.K.

OH, help us, Lord ! — each hour of need
Thy heavenly succor give ;
Help us in thought and word and deed,
Each hour on earth we live.

2 Oh, help us when our spirits bleed,

With contrite anguish sore ;
And when our hearts are cold and dead,
Oh, help us, Lord, the more !

3 Oh, help us, through the prayer of faith,

More firmly to believe !
For still the more the servant hath,
The more shall he receive.

330 The Christian Life.

4 Oh, help us, Jesus ! from on high ;
We know no help but thee ;
Oh, help us so to live and die,
As thine in heaven to be!

Af

451 Psalm 42. C. M.

S pants the hart for cooling streams,
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for thee,
And thy refreshing grace.

2 For thee, my God — the living God,

My thirsty soul doth pine ;
Oh, when shall I behold thy face,
Thou Majesty divine !

3 I sigh to think of happier days,

When thou, O Lord ! wast nigh ;
When every heart was tuned to praise,
And none more blest than I.

4 Why restless, why cast down, my soul ?

Hope still ; and thou shalt sing
The praise of him who is thy God,
Thy health's eternal spring.

HtOu Communion with God. L. M.

MY God, permit me not to be
A stranger to myself and thee ;
Amid a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.

2 Why should my passions mix with earth,
And thus debase my heavenly birth ?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Saviour, go ?

3 Call me away from flesh and sense ;
One sovereign word can draw me thence ;
I would obey the voice divine,

And all inferior joys resign.

Joy in Sorrow, 331

4 Be earth, with all her scenes, withdrawn ;
Let noise and vanity be gone ;
In secret silence of the mind
My heaven, and there my God, I find.

O'

453 I<nke6:21. I* M.

^H, deem not they are blest alone,
Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep ;
For God, who pities man, hath shown
A blessing for the eyes that weep.

2 The light of smiles shall fill again

The lids that overflow with tears ;
And weary hours of woe and pain
. Are promises of happier years.

3 There is a day of sunny rest

For every dark and troubled night; %
And grief may bide an evening guest,
But joy shall come with early light.

4 Nor let the good man's trust depart,

Though life its common gifts deny;

Though with a pierced and broken heart,
And spurned of men, he goes to die.

5 For God has marked each sorrowing day,

And numbered every secret tear,
And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all his children suffer here.

454 Psalm 42: 1. t. M.

I THIRST, but not as once I did,
The vain delights of earth to share ;
Thy wounds, Immanuel, all forbid

That I should seek my pleasures there.

2 It was the sight of thy dear cross

First weaned my heart from earthly things,
And taught me to esteem as dross

The mirth of fools and pomp of kings.

332 The Christian Life.

3 Oh for that grace which springs from thee,

And quickens all things where it flows ;
Which makes a wretched thorn like me
Bloom as the myrtle or the rose!

4 For sure of all the plants that share

The notice of thy Father's eye,
None proves less grateful to his care,
Or yields him meaner fruit than I,

Doxology.

PRAISE God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise him, all creatures here below ;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

455 Psalm 51: 10. C. M.

OH for a heart to praise my God,
A heart from sin set free,
A heart that always feels thy blood
So freely shed for me.

2 A heart resigned, submissive, meek,

My dear Redeemer's throne,
Where only Christ is heard to speak,
Where Jesus reigns alone.

3 Oh for a lowTly, contrite heart,

Believing, true, and clean ;
Which neither life nor death can part
From him that dwells within !

4 Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart ;

Come quickly from above ;
Write thy new name upon my heart,
Thy new, best name of Love.

^JtOD Trusting in Darkness. C. 31.

MY God !— oh, could I make the claim —
My Father and my Friend —
And call thee mine by every name
On which thy saints depend.

I

Nearness to God,

By every name of power and love,
I would thy grace entreat ;

Nor should my humble hopes remove,
Nor leave, thy sacred seat.

Speak, Lord ! and bid celestial peace

Relieve my aching heart ;
Oh, smile and bid my sorrows cease,

And all the gloom depart.

333

457 1 Cor. 13 : 12. C. M.

LOVE the windows of thy grace,
Through which my Lord is seen ;
And long to meet my Saviour's face,
Without a cloud between.

i

Oh that the happy hour were come,
To change my faith to sight ;

I shall behold my Lord at home
In a diviner light.

Haste, my Beloved, and remove
These interposing days;

Then shall my pas-ions all be love,
And all my powers be praise.

^±0O Xoarnoss to God. C. M.

^H, could I find, from day to day,
A nearness to my God,
Then would my hours glide sweet away,
AVhile leaning on his word.

O'

Lord, I desire with thee to live

Anew from day to day,
In joys the world can never give,

Nor ever take away.

Blest Jesus, come, and rule my heart,
And make me wholly thine,

That I may never more depart,
Nor grieve thy love divine.

334 Tb* Christian Life.

4 Thus, till my last expiring breath,
Thy goodness I'll adore ;
And when my frame dissolves in death,
My soul shall love thee more.

459 Job 29 : 2. C. M.

SWEET was the time when first I felt
The Saviour's pard'ning blood
Applied to cleanse my soul from guilt,
And bring me home to God.

2 Soon as the morn the light revealed,

His praises tuned my tongue ;
And, when the evening shade prevailed,
His love was all my song.

3 In prayer, my soul drew near the Lord,

And saw his glory shine ;
And when I read his holy word,
I called each promise mine.

4 But now, when evening shade prevails,

My soul in darkness mourns ;
And when the morn the light reveals,
No light to me returns.

5 Rise, Saviour ! help me to prevail,

And make my soul thy care ;
I know thy mercy cannot fail ;
Let me that mercy share.

4cDU Watchfulness and Prayer. C M.

ALAS, what hourly dangers rise !
What snares beset my way !
To heaven, oh, let me lift mine eyes,
And hourly watch and pray.

2 How oft my mournful thoughts complain,
And melt in flowing tears !
My weak resistance ! — ah, how vain !
How strong my foes and fears !

Aspirations after a Higher Life. 335

3 O gracious God ! in whom I live,

My feeble efforts aid ;
Help me to watch and pray and strive,
Though trembling and afraid.

4 Increase my faith, increase my hope,
When foes and fears prevail,

And bear my fainting spirit up,
Or soon my strength will fail.

5 Oh, keep me in thy heavenly wTay,

And bid the tempter flee ;

And let me never, never stray

From happiness and thee.

4ul "Casting all your Care upon Him." C. M.

LORD, it belongs not to my care
Whether I die or live ;
To love and serve thee is my share,
And this thy grace must give.

2 Christ leads me through no darker rooms

Than he went through before ;

No one into his kingdom comes,

But through his opened door.

3 Come, Lord, when grace has made me meet

Thy blessed face to see;
For if thy work on earth be sweet,
What will thy glory be ?

4 Then shall I end my sad complaints,

And weary, sinful days,
And join with all triumphant saints
Who sing Jehovah's praise.

5 My knowledge of that life is small ;

The eye of faith is dim ;
But 'tis enough that Christ knows all,
And I shall be with him.

336 The Christian Life.

462 Psalm 38. C. M,

AMIDST thy wrath remember love ;
Restore thy servant, Lord ;
Nor let a Father's chastening prove
Like an avenger's sword.

2 My sins a heavy load appear,

And o'er my head are gone ;
Too heavy they for me to bear,
Too hard for me t' atone.

3 My thoughts are like a troubled sea,

My head still bending down ;
And I go mourning all the day,
Beneath my Father's frown.

4 All my desire to thee is known ;

Thine eye counts every tear ;
And every sigh and every groan
Is noticed by thine ear.

5 My God, forgive my follies past,

And be forever nigh ;
O Lord of my salvation, haste,
Before thy servant die.

4b3 John 6: 68. C. M.

TO wThom, my Saviour, shall I go,
If I depart from thee ?
My guide through all this vale of woe,
And more than all to me.

2 The world reject thy gentle reign,

And pay thy death with scorn ;
•Oh ! they could plait thy crown again,
And sharpen every thorn.

3 But I have felt thy dying love

Breathe gently through my heart,
To whisper hope of joys above, —
And can we ever part ?

F

Solitude. 237

4 Ah ! no, with thee I'll walk below,
My journey to the grave :
To whom, my Saviour, shall I go,
When only thou canst save ?

404 Retirement. €. M.

'AR from the world, 0 Lord, I flee,
From strife and tumult far ;
From scenes where Satan wages still
His most successful war.

2 The calm retreat, the silent shade,

With prayer and praise agree ;
And seem by thy sweet bounty made
For those who follow thee.

3 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul,

And grace her mean abode,
Oh, with what peace and joy and love
Does she commune with God!

4 There, like the nightingale, she pours

Her solitary lays;
Nor asks a witness of her song,
Nor thirsts for human praise.

5 Author and Guardian of my life,

Sweet Source of light divine,
And — all harmonious names in one —
My Saviour, thou art mine !

4uO Alone with God. €. ■.

OW deep and tranquil is the joy
Which thou hast kindly given
To those who seek thy presence, Lord,
And tread the path to heaven !

H(

'Tis in the silence of the shade
My sober thoughts begin,

And earth's illusive charms appear
But vanity and sin.

22

038 The Christian Life.

3 'Tis here the troubled springs of life

Are calmed to sweetest rest ;
The stilness of this hour expels
The tumult of my breast.

4 Far, far above all mortal things

I walk with God alone ;
And while he names celestial joys,
jj call them all my own.

5 Then let the noisy world pursue

The trifles of a day, —
Mine be the silent, secret joys
That never fade away.

4bb God's Goodness. C. M.

BOW my forehead to the dust,
I veil my eyes for shame,
And urge, in trembling self-distrust,
A prayer without a claim.

1

2 I see the wrong that round me lies,

I feel the guilt within,
I hear with groans and travail-cries
The world confess its sin.

3 Yet, in the maddening maze of things,

And tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed star my spirit clings ; —
I know that God is good !

4 I know not where his islands lift

Their fronded palms in air ;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.

5 And so, beside the silent sea,

I wait the muffled oar ;
No harm from him can come to me,
On ocean or on shore!

467

God's Peace and Glory. 339

God's Peace. €. M.

WE bless thee for thy peace, O God !
Deep as the soundless sea,
Which falls like sunshine on the road
Of those who trust in thee.

2 That peace which suffers and is strong,

Trusts where it cannot see,
Deems not the trial way too long,
But leaves the end with thee ; —

3 That peace which flows serene and deep, —

A river in the soul,
Whose banks a living verdure keep:
God's sunshine o'er the whole! —

4 Such, Father, give our hearts such peace,

Whate'er the outward be,
Till all life's discipline shall cease,
And we go home to thee.

4uO God's Glory. C. 31.

OD'S glory is a wondrous thing,

G(

Most strange in all its ways,
And, of all things on earth, least like
What men agree to praise.

2 Oh, blest is he to whom is given

The instinct that can tell
That God is on the field, when he
Is most invisible!

3 And blest is he who can divine

Where real right doth lie,
And dares to take the side that seems
Wrong to man's blindfold eye!

4 Oh, learn to scorn the praise of men!

Oh, learn to lose with God!
For Jesus won the world through shame,
And beckons thee his road.

340 The Christian Life.

5 And right is right, since God is God;
And right the day must win ;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin !

469

For the Spirit of a Child. €. M.

FATHER, I know that all my life
Is portioned out for me;
The changes that will surely come

I do not fear to see :
I ask thee for a present mind,
Intent on pleasing thee.

2 I ask thee for a thoughtful love,

Through constant watching wise,
To meet the glad with joyful smiles,

And wipe the weeping eyes, —
A heart at leisure from itself,

To soothe and sympathize.

3 I would not have the restless wrill

That hurries to and frc^
That seeks for some great thing to do,

Or secret thing to know :
I would be treated as a child,

And guided where I go.

4 Wherever in the world I am,

In whatsoe'er estate,
I have a fellowship with hearts,

To keep and cultivate;
A work of lowly love to do

For Him on whom I wait.

5 I ask thee for the daily strength,

To none that ask denied,
A mind to blend with outward life,

While keeping at thy side;
Content to fill a little space,

If thou be glorified.

Joy in Christ. 34 1

470 Not Forsaken. C. M.

AND wilt thou now forsake me, Lord?
I feel it cannot be ;
No earthly tongue can ever tell
What thou hast been to me.

2 Through all the changing scenes of life
Thy love hath sheltered me ;

And wilt thou now forget thy child?
I feel it cannot be.

3 Thy love hath been my heritage
Through many a weary year;

I've trusted in thy promises,
And thou hast dried each tear.

4 In life or death, I take my stand

Where I have ever stood,
Beneath the shelter of thy cross,
And trusting in thy blood.

And then, when youth and health and
And energy'have fled, [strength

The shades of evening peacefully
Shall close around my head.

6 And when in all the helplessness
Of death I turn to thee,
Thou wilt not then forsake me, Lord !
I feel it cannot be.

4/1 "The Roclt of our Salvation." L. M.

REJOICE, ye saints, rejoice and praise
The blessings of redeeming grace !
Jesus, your everlasting tower,
Stands firm against the tempest's power.

2 He is a refuge ever nigh ;

His love endures as mountains high ;
His name's a rock, which winds above,
And waves below, can never move.

34-2 The Christian Life.

3 While all things change, he changes not ;
He ne'er forgets, though oft forgot ;
His love will ever be the same ;
His word, enduring as his name.

4 Rejoice, ye saints, rejoice and praise
The blessings of this wondrous grace !
Jesus, your everlasting tower,

Can bear, unmoved, the tempest's power.

4/2 The Star of Bethlehem. 1L. M.

WHEN marshalled on the nightly plain,
The glittering host bestud the sky,
One star alone, of all the train,
Can fix the sinner's wandering eye.

2 Hark, hark ! to God the chorus breaks,

From every host, from every gem ;
But one alone, the Saviour, speaks :
It is the Star of Bethlehem.

3 Once on the raging seas I rode :

The storm was loud, the night was dark ;
The ocean yawned, and rudely bio wed
The wind that tossed my foundering bark.

4 Deep horror then my vitals froze ;

Death-struck, I ceased the tide to stem ;
When suddenly a star arose !
It was the Star of Bethlehem.

5 It was my guide, my light, my all ;

It bade my dark forebodings cease ;
And through the storm, and danger's thrall,
It led me to the port of peace.

6 Now safely moored, my perils o'er,

I'll sing, first in night's diadem,
Forever and for evermore,

The Star— the Star of Bethlehem !

God's Grace in Christ. 343

t/O The Grace of God. I,. M.

"VTOW to the Lord a noble song :

-1^1 Awake, my soul ! awake my tongue !

Hosanna to th' eternal Name,

And all his boundless love proclaim !

See where it shines in Jesus' face,
The brightest image of his grace :
God, in the person of his Son,
Has all his mightiest works outdone.

5 Grace! — 'tis a sweet, a charming theme;
My thoughts rejoice at Jesus' name:
Ye angels, dwell upon the sound ;
Ye heavens, reflect it to the ground !

t Oh, may I live to reach the place
Where he un veils his lovely face !
Where I his beauties shall behold,
And sing his name to harps of gold !

474 "One lord." CM.

OLORD and Master of us all,
Whate'er our name or sign ;
We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
We test our lives by thine.

2 We faintly hear, we dimly see,

In differing phrase we pray;
But, dim or clear, we own in thee,
The Light, the Truth, the Way!

3 Apart from thee all gain is loss,

And labor vainly clone ;
The solemn shadow of thy cross
Is better than the sun.

4 Alone, O Love ineffable !

Thy saving name is given ;
To turn aside from thee is hell,
To walk with thee is heaven.

344 The Christian Life.

5 Deep strike thy roots, O heavenly Vine,
Within our earthly sod ;
Most human and yet most divine,
The flower of man and God !

475 Preciousness of Christ. CM.

TFIHOU dear Kedeemer, dying Lamb,
1- I love to hear of thee ;
No music's like thy charming name,
Nor half so sweet can be.

2 Oh, may I ever hear thy voice

In mercy to me speak ;
In thee, my Priest, will I rejoice
And thy salvation seek.

3 My Jesus shall be still my theme,

While on this earth I stay ;

I'll sing my Jesus' lovely name,

When all things else decay.

4 When I appear in yonder cloud,

With all his favored throng,
Then will I sing more sweet, more loud,
And Christ shall be my song.

4/0 Luke 23 : 42. C. M.

JESUS ! thou art the sinner's Friend ;
As such I look to thee ;
Now in the fulness of thy love,

0 Lord ! remember me.

2 Remember thy pure word of grace,

Remember Calvary,
Remember all thy dying groans,
And, then, remember me.

3 Thou wondrous Advocate with God !

1 yield myself to thee ;
While thou art sitting on thy throne,

Dear Lord ! remember me.

The Praise of Christ's Love and Grace, 345

: Lord ! I am guilty, I am vile,
But thy salvation's free ;
Then, in thine all-abounding grace,
Dear Lord ! remember me.

> And, when I close my eyes in death,
When creature-helps all flee,
Then, O my dear Redeemer-God !
I pray, remember me.

D'

477 Matt. 10: 24. C. JI .

jIDST thou, dear Jesus ! suffer shame,
And bear the cross for me?
And shall I fear to own thy name,
Or thy disciple be ?

Inspire my soul with life divine.

And make me truly bold ;
Let knowledge, faith, and meekness shine,

Nor love, nor zeal, grow cold.

Let mockers scoff, the world defame,

And treat me with disdain ;
Still may 1 glory ill thy name,

And count reproach my gain.

4 To thee I cheerfully submit,
And all my powers resign ;
Let wisdom point out what is fit,
And I'll no more repine.

478 The King: of Saints. C. K.

COME, ye that love the Saviour's name,
And joy to make it known :
The sovereign of your hearts proclaim,
And bow before his throne.

2 Behold your King, your Saviour, crowmed
With glories all divine;
And tell the wondering nations round
How bright those glories shine.

346 The Christian Life.

3 When in his earthly courts we view

The beauties of our King,
We long to love as angels do,
And with their voice to sing.

4 Oh for the day, the glorious day !

When heaven and earth shall raise,
With all their powers, the raptured lay,
To celebrate thy praise.

D<

479 John 21: 15. CM.

|0 not I love thee, O my Lord?
Behold my heart, and see ;
And turn the dearest idol out
That dares to rival thee.

2 Is not thy name melodious still

To mine attentive ear ?
Doth not each pulse with pleasure bound,
My Saviour's voice to hear ?

3 Hast thou a lamb in all thy flock

I would disdain to feed ?
Hast thou a foe, before whose face
I fear thy cause to plead ?

4 Would not my heart pour forth its blood

In honor of thy name ?
And challenge the cold hand of death
To damp th' immortal flame ?

5 Thou knowest that I love thee, Lord ;

But oh ! I long to soar
Far from the sphere of mortal joys,
And learn to love thee more.

40U Rom. 5:8. CM.

TO our Redeemer's glorious name
Awake the sacred song ;
Oh, may his love — immortal flame! —
Tune every heart and tongue.

Hymns of Faith and jfoy. 347

2 His love, what mortal thought can reach !

What mortal tongue display !
Imagination's utmost stretch
In wonder dies away.

3 Dear Lord, while we, adoring, pay

Our humble thanks to thee,
May every heart with rapture say,
"The Saviour died for me !"

4 Oh, may the sweet, the blissful theme,

Fill every heart and tongue !
Till strangers love thy charming name,
And join the sacred song.

481 Psalm 71. C. M.

MY Saviour ! my almighty Friend !
When I begin thy praise,
Where will the growing numbers end,
The numbers of thy grace ?

2 Thou art my everlasting trust;

Thy goodness I adore :
And since I knew thy graces first,
I speak thy glories more.

3 My feet shall travel all the length

Of the celestial road ;
And march, with courage in thy strength,
To see my Father, God.

4o£ Psalm 77: 19. 1 Cor. 1,1:12. S. M.

THY way is in the sea ;
Thy paths we cannot trace ;
Nor solve, O Lord ! the mystery
Of thy unbounded grace.

2 As through a glass we see
The wonders of thy love ;
How little do we know of thee,
Or of the joys above !

948 The Christian Life,

3 In part we know thy will,

And bless thee for the sight ;
Soon will thy love the rest reveal
In glory's clearer light.

4 With joy shall we survey

Thy providence and grace ;

And spend an everlasting day

In wonder, love, and praise.

400 1 Peter 1:8. S. M.

"OT with our mortal eyes
Have we beheld the Lord ;
Yet we rejoice to hear his name,
And love him in his word.

N<

On earth we want the sight

Of our Redeemer's face;
Yet, Lord, our inmost thoughts delight

To dwell upon thy grace.

And when we taste thy love,

Our joys divinely grow
Unspeakable, like those above,

And heaven begins below.

484

R

Phil. 4: 4. S. M.

EJOICE! the Lord is King!
Your Lord and King adore !
Ye ransomed saints, give thanks and sing,
And triumph evermore.

2 The mighty Saviour reigns,

The God of truth and love ;
When he himself had purged our stains,
He took his seat above.

3 He sits at God's right hand,

Till all his foes submit,
And humbly bow at his command,
And fall beneath his feet.

Preciousness and Beauty of Christ. 349

4 Rejoice in glorious hope !

Jesus, the Judge, shall come,
And take his waiting servants up
To their eternal home.

D'

4b 5 Lnke 19: 41. S. M.

,ID Christ o'er sinners weep,
And shall our cheeks be dry ?
Let floods of penitential grief
Burst forth from every eye.

2 The Son of God in tears,

Angels with wonder see !
Be thou astonished, O my soul ;
He shed those tears for thee.

3 He wept that we might weep ;

Each sin demands a tear;
In heaven alone no sin is found,
And there's no weeping there.

j1

4oO JIatt. 17: 8. CM.

ESXJ8 ! the very thought of thee
With sweetness fills my breast ;

But sweeter far thy face to see,

And in thy presence rest.
No voice can sing, no heart can frame,

Nor can the memory find,
A sweeter sound than thy blest name,

O Saviour of mankind !

Oh, hope of every contrite heart,

Oh, joy of all the meek :
To those who fall, how kind thou art,

How good to those who seek !
But what to those who find? ah! this

Nor tongue nor pen can show :
The love of Jesus, what it is,

None but his loved ones know.

350 The Christian Life.

3 Thy lovely presence shines so clear

Through every sense and way,
That souls which once have seen thee near,

See all things else decay.
Come then, dear Lord, possess my heart,

Chase thence the shades of night ;
Bid all but perfect love depart

Before thy shining light.

4 Jesus, our hope, when we repent,

Sweet source of all our grace ;
Sole comfort in our banishment ;

Oh ! what, when face to face !
Jesus ! our only joy be thou,

As thou our prize wilt be ;
Jesus ! be thou our glory now,

And in eternity.

4o7 Cant. 5: 10-16. C. M.

MAJESTIC sweetness sits enthroned
Upon the Saviour's brow ;
His head with radiant glories crowned,

His lips with grace overflow.
No mortal can with him compare,

Among the sons of men ;
Fairer is he than all the fair
That fill the heavenly train.

2 He saw me plunged in deep distress,

He flew to my relief;
For me he bore the shameful cross,

And carried all my grief.
To him I owe my life and breath.

And all the joys I have ;
He makes me triumph over death,

He saves me from the grave.

3 To heaven the place of his abode,

He brings my weary feet ;
Shows me the glories of my God,
And makes my joy complete.

B1

Jesus only. 35 1

Since from his bounty I receive

Such proofs of love divine,
Had I a thousand hearts to give,

Lord ! they should all be thine.

" Only Thee." 7s.

►LESSED Saviour ! thee I love,
All my other joys above;
All my hopes in thee abide ;
Thou my hope, and naught beside :
Ever let my glory be
Only, only, only thee.

2 Once again beside the cross,
All my gain I count but loss ;
Earthly pleasures fade away,
Clouds they are that hide my day:
Hence, vain shadows ! let me see
Jesus crucified for me.

3 Blessed Saviour ! thine am I,
Thine to live, and thine to die ;
Height or depth or earthly power
Ne'er shall hide my Saviour more :
Ever shall my glory be

Only, only, only thee !

40y 2 Pet. Is 19. 7».

CHRIST, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only light,
Sun of righteousness ! arise,

Triumph o'er the shades of night :
Day-spring from on high, be near ;
Day-star, in my heart appear !

2 Dark and cheerless is the morn,
If thy light is hid from me ;
Joyless is the day's return,

Till thy mercy's beams I see, —
Till they inward light impart,
Glad my eyes, and warm my heart.

352 The Christian Life.

3 Visit, then, this soul of mine;

Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, radiant Sun divine !

Scatter all my unbelief:
More and more thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.

490 1 John 3 : 14. 7s.

BLESSED are the sons of God !
They are bought with Jesus' blood ;
They are ransomed from the grave ;
Life eternal they shall have :
With them numbered may we be,
Here, and in eternity!

2 God did love them in his Son
Long before the world begun ;
All their sins are washed away ;
They shall stand in God's great day :
With them numbered may we be,
Here, and in eternity!

8 They are harmless, meek, and mild,
Holy, humble, undefiled ;
They are by the Spirit sealed,
They with love and peace are filled :
With them numbered may we be,
Here, and in eternity !

4 They are lights upon the earth,
Children of a heavenly birth ;
One with God, with Jesus one,
Glory is in them begun :

With them numbered may we be,
Here, and in eternity !

491 Psalm 42. 7s.

HEARKEN, Lord, to my complaints,
For my soul within me faints ;
Thee, far off, I call to mind,
In the land I left behind,

Abiding in Christ. 353

Where the streams of Jordan flow,
Where the heights of Hermon glow,

2 Once the morning's earliest light
Brought thy mercy to my sight,
And my wakeful song was heard
Later than the evening bird :
Hast thou all my prayers forgot ?
Dost thou scorn, or hear them not?

w

1 Cor. 12:27. S. M.

,EAR Saviour! we are thine,
By everlasting hands;
Our hearts, our souls, we would resign
Entirely to thy hands.

2 To thee we still would cleave

With ever growing zeal ;
If millions tempt us Christ to leave,
Oh, let them nc\r prevail!

3 Thy Spirit shall unite

( )nr souls to thee, our Head ;
Shall form in us thine image bright,

And teach thy paths to tread.

4 Death may our souls divide

From these abodes of clay;

But love shall keep us near thy side,
Through all the gloomy way.

5 Since Christ and we are one,

Why should we doubt or tear?
If he in heaven has iixed his throne,
He'll iix his members there.

4uO Jude 24, as. S. M.

TO God, the only wise,
Our Saviour and our King ;
Let all the saints below the skies
Their humble praises bring.
23

354 The Christian Life.

2 Tis his almighty love,

His counsel and his care,
Preserves us safe from sin and death,
And every hurtful snare.

3 He will present our souls,

Unblemished and complete,
Before the glory of his face,
With joys divinely great.

4 Then all the chosen seed

Shall meet around the throne,
Shall bless the conduct of his grace,
And make his wonders known.

5 To our Eedeemer, God,

Wisdom and power belong,
Immortal crowns of majesty,
And everlasting song.

494 " Singing in tlie Ways of the Lord." S.M,

COME, ye that love the Lord,
And let your joys be known ;
Join in a song of sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.

2 Let those refuse to sing

Who never knew our God ;
But children of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad.

3 The men of grace have found

Glory begun below ;
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow.

4 The hill of Zion yields

A thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.

yesus Precious. 355

5 Then let our song? abound,
And every tear be dry ;
We're marching thro' Immanuers ground
To fairer worlds on high.

495 Cant. 2: 16. €. H.

Y God ! the spring of all my joys,
The life of my delights,
The glory of my brightest days,
And comfort of my nights !

2 In darkest shades, if lie appear,
My dawning is begun :

He is my soul's sweet morning star,
And he my rising sun.

3 The opening heavens around me shine
With beams of sacred bliss,

While Jesus show- his heart is mine,
And whispers, 1 am his!

4 My soul would leave this heavy clay
At that transporting word,

Run up with joy the Bhining way,
T' embrace my dear* st Lord.

5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death,
I'd break through every

The wings of love and arms of faith
Should bear me conqu'ror through.

'c:1

49b Matt. 1: 21. CM.

JESUS! I love thy charming name,
'Tis music to mine ear ;
Fain would I sound it out so loud
That earth and heaven should hear.

2 Yes, thou art precious to my soul,
My transport and my trust ;
Jewels, to thee, are gaudy toys,
And gold is sordid dust.

056 The Christian Life.

3 All my capacious powers can wish,

In thee doth richly meet ;
Not to mine eyes is light so dear,
Nor friendship half so sweet.

4 Thy grace still dwells upon my heart,

And sheds its fragrance there;- —
The noblest balm of all its wounds,
The cordial of its care.

5 I'll speak the honors of thy name,

With my last laboring breath ;
Then, speechless, clasp thee in mine arms,
The antidote of death.

497 Psalm 73. C. M

WHOM have we, Lord, in heaven, bm
And whom on earth beside ? [thee
Where else for succor can we flee,
Or in whose strength confide ?

2 Thou art our portion here below,

Our promised bliss above ;
Ne'er may our souls an object know
So precious as thy love.

3 When heart and flesh, O Lord, shall fail,

Thou wilt our spirit cheer,
Support us through life's thorny vale,
And calm each anxious fear.

4 Yes, thou shalt be our guide through life,

And help and strength supply,
Sustain us in death's fearful strife,
And welcome us on high.

xfex

TciyO Joy of Foi*giveness. C. M,

Y Saviour, let me hear thy voice

Jjfi Pronounce the word of peace,
And all my warmest powers shall join
To celebrate thy grace.

yoys of Pardon. 357

2 With gentle smiles call me thy child,

And speak my sins forgiven ;
The accents mild shall charm my ear
Like the sweet harps of heaven.

3 Cheerful, where'er thy hand shall lead,

The darkest path I'll tread ;
Cheerful I'll quit these mortal shores,
And mingle with the dead.

4 When dreadful guilt is done away,
No other fears we know;

That hand which scatters pardons down
Shall crowns of life bestow.

499 2 Tim. 1: 12. CE

I'M not ashamed to own my Lord,
Or to defend his cau
Maintain the honor of his word,
The glory of hi

2 Jesus, my God!— I know his name;

His name is all my trusl :
Nor will he put my bou] to shame,

Nor let my hop;* be lost.

3 Firm as his throne his promise stands,

And lie can well secure
What I've committed to his hands
Till the decisive hour.

4 Then will he own my worthless, name

Before hi-' Fath<
And in the New Jerusalem

Appoint my soul a pla

OUU Joy and Comfort in Christ. C. M.

rjlHOU lovely Source of true delight,
-L Whom I unseen adore,
Unveil thy beauties to my sight,
That I may love thee more.

958 The Christian Life.

2 Thy glory o'er creation shines,

But in thy sacred word
I read, in fairer, brighter lines,
My bleeding, dying Lord.

3 'Tis here, whene'er my comforts droop,

And sins and sorrows rise,
Thy love, with cheerful beams of hope,
My fainting heart supplies.

4 Jesus ! my Lord, my life, my light,

Oh, come with blissful ray,
Break radiant through the shades of night,
And chase my fears awTay.

0 U 1 Jesus' Praise. C. M,

|H for a thousand tongues to sing
My dear Redeemer's praise, —
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of his grace !

2 My gracious Master and my God,

Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of thy name.

3 Jesus ! the name that calms our fears,

That bids our sorrows cease ;
'Tis music in the sinner's ears ;
'Tis life and health and peace.

4 He breaks the power of reigning sin ;

He sets the pris'ner free ;
His blood can make the foulest clean ;
His blood availed for me.

OlM Isaiali54:S. CM.

CHILDREN of God, who, faint and slow,
Your pilgrim-path pursue,
In strength and weakness, joy and woe,
To God's high calling true ! —

Self-Consecration to Christ. 359

2 Why move ye thus, with lingering tread,
A doubting, mournful band ?

Why faintly hangs the drooping head ?
Why fails the feeble hand ?

3 Oh ! weak to know a Saviour's power,

To feel a Father's care ;
A moment's toil, a passing shower,
Is all the grief ye share.

4 Then, Christian, dry the falling tear,

The faithless doubt remove ;
Redeemed at last from guilt and fear,
Oh, wake thy heart to love.

503 Ever Thine, Only Thine.

OLOYE! who, ere life's earliest dawn,
On me thy choice bust gently laid ;
O Love! who here as man wast born;

And wholly like to OS wast made;
O Love! I give myself to thee,
Thine ever, only thine to be.

Ever thine, only thine!

O Love, I give myself to thee!

2 0 Love! who once in time wast slain, [woe;
Pierced through and through with bitter

O Love! who wrestling thus didst gain
That we eternal joy might know;

O Love! I give myself to thee,

Thine ever, only thine to be.
Chorus :

8 O Love ! who lovest me for aye,

Who for my sonl dost ever plead ;

O Love! who didst my ransom pay,
Whose power suffioeth in my stead;

O Love! I give myself to thee,

. Thine ever, only thine to be.
Chorus :

360 The Christian Life.

4 0 Love ! who once shalt bid me rise
From out this dying life of ours ;
O Love ! who once o'er yonder skies

Shalt set me in the fadeless bowers ;
O Love! I give myself to thee,
Thine ever, only thine to be.
Chorus :

o1

5 04 1 Peter 2 s 7. C. P. M,

^H, could I speak the matchless worth,
Oh, could I sound the glories forth,

Which in my Saviour shine !
I'd soar, and touch the heavenly strings,
And vie with Gabriel while he sings

In notes almost divine.

2 I'd sing the precious blood he spilt,
My ransom from the dreadful guilt

Of sin and wrath divine !
I'd sing his glorious righteousness,
In which all-perfect heavenly dress

My soul shall ever shine.

3 I'd sing the characters he bears,
And all the forms of love he wears,

Exalted on his throne :
In loftiest songs of sweetest praise,
I would to everlasting days

Make all his glories known.

4 Well, the delightful day will come,
When my dear Lord will bring me home,

And I shall see his face :
Then with my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
A blest eternity I'll spend,

Triumphant in his grace.

0 U b Luke 10 : 42. C. P. M.

LOVE divine, how sweet thou art !
When shall I find my willing heart
All taken up by thee ?

0

Glorying in the Cross. 36 1

I thirst, I faint, I die to prove
The greatness of redeeming love —
The love of Christ to ine.

God only knows the love of God ;
Oh that it now were shed abroad

In this poor stony heart !
For love I sigh, for love I pine
This only portion, Lord, be mine,

Be mine the better part !

Oh that I could, with favored John,
Recline my weary head upon

The dear Redeemer's breast ;
From care and sin and sorrow free,
Give me ! O Lord, to find in thee

My everlasting rest !

506

Gal. 6: 11. 8s & 7s.

IN the cross of Christ I glory,
Towering o'er the wrecks of time ;
All the light of sacred story
Gathers round its head sublime.

When the woes of life o'er take me,
Hopes deceive, and fears annoy,

Never shall the cross forsake me :
Lo ! it glows with peace and joy.

When the sun of bliss is beaming

Light and love upon my way,
From the cross the radiance streaming,

Adds new lustre to the day.

Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure,
By the cross are sanctified ;

Peace is there, that knows no measure,
Joys that through all time abide.

In the cross of Christ I glory,

Towering o'er the wrecks of time ;

All the light of sacred story
Gathers round its head sublime.

362 The Christian Life.

507 1 €or. 15 : 10. 8s & 7s.

COME, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace ;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.

2 Jesus sought me when a stranger,

Wandering from the fold of God ;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.

3 Oh ! to grace how great a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be !
Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.

4 Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it;

Prone to leave the God I love ;
Here's my heart — oh, take and seal it, —
Seal it from thy courts above.

OUO Psalm 91. 8s«fc7s.

CALL Jehovah thy salvation,
Rest beneath th' Almighty's shade ;
In his secret habitation

Dwell, and never be dismayed !

2 There no tumult can alarm thee,

Thou shalt dread no hidden snare ;
Guile nor violence can harm thee,
In eternal safeguard there.

^6L

3 He shall charge his angel legions

Watch and ward o'er thee to keep,
Though thou walk through hostile regions,
Though in desert wilds thou sleep.

4 Since, with firm and pure affection,

Thou on God hast set thy love,
With the wings of his protection
He shall shield thee from above.

Christ unseen but precious. 363

5 Thou shalt call on him in trouble,
He Trill hearken, he will save ;
Here, for grief reward thee double,
Crown with life beyond the grave.

5(jy 1 Peter 1:8. €. M.

JESUS, these eyes have never seen
That radiant form of thine!
The veil of sense hangs dark between
Thy blessed face and mine !

2 I see thee not, I hear thee not,
Yet art thou oft with me ;
And earth hath -pot,

As where I meet with thee.

8 Like some bright dream that comes un-
When slum! me r 11, [sought,

Thrne image ever fills my thought,
And charms my ml.

4 Yet though I hav 1, and still
Must resl in faith alone ;

I love thee, dearest Lord! — and will,
Unseen, but not unknown.

5 When death these mortal eyes shall seal,
And still this throbbing heart,

The rending veil shall thee reveal,
All glorious as thou art !

w

Oil) 1 Peter 2: 7. C. K.

OW sweet t] of Jesus sounds

In a believer's ear!

It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.

It makes the wounded spirit whole,
And calms the troubled breast ;

'Tis manna to the hungry soul,
And to the weary, rest.

364 The Christian Life.

3 By thee, my prayers acceptance gain,

Although with sin defiled ;
Satan accuses me in vain,
And I am owned a child.

4 Weak is the effort of my heart,

And cold my warmest thought ;
But when I see thee as thou art,
I'll praise thee as I ought.

5 Till then I would thy love proclaim,

With every fleeting breath ;
And may the music of thy name
Refresh my soul in death.

0 11 " Can we Forget?" C. M,

JESUS ! thy love shall we forget,
And never bring to mind
The grace that paid our hopeless debt,
And bade us pardon find ?

2 Shall we thy life of grief forget,

Thy fasting and thy prayer,
Thy locks with mountain vapors wet,
To save us from despair ?

3 Gethsemane can we forget,

Thy struggling agony,
When night lay dark on Olivet,
And none to watch with thee ?

4 Our sorrows and our sins were laid

On thee, alone on thee :
Thy precious blood our ransom paid, —
Thine all the glory be !

OIZ The Solid Roclt. !L. M. 61.

MY hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.

Trusting and Rejoicing in yesus. 365

On Christ, the solid rock, I stand ;
All other ground is sinking sand.

2 When darkness seems to veil his face,
I rest on his unchanging grace ;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand ;
All other ground is sinking sand.

3 His oath, his covenant, and his blood,
Support me in the whelming flood ;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand ;
All other ground is sinking sand.

OlvJ Gen. 32: 24. I*. M. 61.

COME, O thou traveller unknown,
Whom still I hold but cannot see,
My company before is gone,

And I am left alone with thee:
With thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.

2 I need not tell thee who I am ;

My sin and misery declare ;
Thyself hast called me by my name,

Look on thy hands and read it there,
But who, I ask thee, who art thou?
Tell me thy name, and tell me now.

3 'TisLove! 'tis Love! thou died'st forme;

I hear thy whisper in my heart ;
The morning breaks, the shadows flee

Pure, universal Love thou art :
To me, to all, thy mercies move;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

4 My prayer hath power with God ; the grace

Unspeakable I now receive :

966 The Christian Life.

Through faith I see thee face to face ;

I see thee face to face and live !
In vain I have not wept and strove;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

5 I know thee, Saviour, who thou art, —
Jesus, the feeble sinner's Friend :

Nor wilt thou with the night depart,
But stay and love me to the end :

Thy mercies never shall remove ;

Thy nature and thy name is Love.

01 4 Sympathy of Christ.— Hel), 2 : 17. CM,

WITH joy we meditate the grace
Of our High Priest above ;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bosom glows with love.

2 Touched with a sympathy within,

He knows our feeble frame ;
He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he hath felt the same.

3 He in the days of feeble flesh

Poured out his cries and tears ;
And in his measure feels afresh
What every member bears.

4 Then let our humble faith address

His mercy and his power ;
We shall obtain delivering grace,
In each distressing hour.

0 1 0 Our High Priest.— Isaiah 49 : 16. C. M.

HVTOW let our cheerful eyes survey
-L ^ Our great High Priest above,
And celebrate his constant care
And sympathetic love.

2 Though raised to a superior throne,
Where angels bow around,

Our High Priest. 367

And high o'er all the shining train,
With matchless honors crowned ; —

3 The names of all his saints he bears

Engraven on his heart ;
Nor shall a name once treasured there
E'er from his care depart.

4 Those characters shall fair abide,

Our everlasting trust,
When gems and monuments and crowns
Are mouldered down to dust.

5 So, gracious Saviour! on my breast,

May thy dear name be worn,
A sacred ornament and guard,
To endless ages borne.

5 ID 1 Cor. 1 : 22-24. C. M.

EAREST of all the names above,
My Jesus and my God,
Who can resist thy heavenly love,
Or trifle with thy blood ?

D!

'Tis by the merits of thy death
Thy Father smiles again ;

'Tis by thine interceding breath
The Spirit dwells with men.

Till God in human flesh I see,
My thoughts no comfort find ;

The holy, just, and sacred Three
Are terrors to my mind.

But if Immanuel's face appear,
My hope, my joy, begin :

His name forbids my slavish fear ;
His grace removes my sin.

While Jews on their own law rely,
And Greeks of wisdom boast,

I love th' incarnate Mystery,
And there I fix my trust.

368 The Christian Life.

517 Heb.4:15. I*. M. 61.

WHEN gathering clouds around I view.
And days are dark and friends are few,
On Him I lean, who, not in vain,
Experienced every human pain ;
He sees my wants, allays my fears,
And counts and treasures up my tears.

2 If aught should tempt my soul to stray
From heavenly wisdom's narrow way,
To fly the good I would pursue,

Or do the ill I would not do;

Still He who felt temptation's power

Will guard me in that dangerous hour.

3 When sorrowing o'er some stone I bend,
Which covers all that was a friend,
And from his hand, his voice, his smile,
Divides me for a little while ;

Thou, Saviour, seest the tears I shed,
For thou didst weep o'er Lazarus dead.

4 And, oh ! when I have safely passed
Through every conflict but the last,
Still, still unchanging, watch beside
My painful bed, for thou hast died ;
Then point to realms of cloudless day,
And wipe the latest tear away!

OlO The Returning Wanderer. Ii. 31. 61.

WEARY of wandering from my God,
And now made willing to return,
I hear, and bow beneath the rod ;

For thee, not without hope, I mourn :
I have an Advocate above,
A Friend before the throne of love.

2 O Jesus, full of truth and grace !
More full of grace than I of sin ;

Praise of Christ's Grace. 369

Yet once again I seek thy face,

Open thine arms and take me in ;
And freely my backslidings heal,
And love the faithless sinner still.

Oiy Complete in Ciirist. I*. M. 61.

JESUS ! thy boundless love to me
No thought can reach, no tongue declare;
Oh, knit my thankful heart to thee,
And reign without a rival there!
Thine wholly, thine alone, I live :
Thyself to me, my Saviour, give!

What in thy love possess I not ?

My star by night, my sun by day,
My spring of life when parched with drought,

My wine to cheer, my bread to stay ;
My strength, my shield, my safe abode,
My robe before the throne of God.

520 Isaiah IT: 14. 7s.

SWEETER sounds than music knows
Charm me in ImmanuePs name;
All her hopes my spirit owes

To his birth and cross and shame.

2 When he came, the angels sung,

" Glory be to God on high ["
Lord ! unloose my stammering tongue ;
Who should louder sing than I ?

3 Did the Lord a man become

That he might the law fulfil,
Bleed and suffer in my room,

And canst thou, my tongue, be still ?

4 No, I must my praises bring,

Though they worthless are and weak ;
For should I refuse to sing,

Sure the very stones would speak.

24

370 The Christian Life.

5 O my Saviour, Shield, and Sun,

Shepherd, Brother, Lord, and Friend,
Every precious name in one !
I will love thee without end.

521 1 Cor. 15:10. 7s,

BLESSED fountain, full of grace!
Grace for sinners, grace for me ;
To this source alone I trace
What I am and hope to be.

2 What I am, as one redeemed,

Saved and rescued by the Lord ;
Hating what I once esteemed,
Loving what I once abhorred.

3 What I hope to be ere long,

When I take my place above,

When I join the heavenly throng,

When I see the God of love.

4 Then I hope like him to be,

Who redeemed his saints from sin,
Whom I now obscurely see,

Through a veil that stands between.

5 Blessed fountain, full of grace !

Grace for sinners, grace for me ;
To this source alone I trace
What I am and hope to be.

DZZ The Good Shepherd. 7s.

JESUS, Shepherd of the sheep ;
Powerful is thine arm to keep
All thy flocks w7ith safest care,
Fed in pastures large and fair.

2 Thee their guide and guard they own ;
Thee they love, and thee alone ;
Thee they follow day by day,
Fearful lest their feet should stray.

Guidance and Grace besought. 371

3 Lord, thy helpless sheep behold ;
Gather all unto thy fold ;
Gently lead the wanderers home ;
Watch them, lest again they roam.

4 Bring thy sheep, now far astray,
Lost in Satan's evil way ;
Then, the fold and Shepherd one,

We shall praise thee round the throne.

OZu John 4: 16. 7s.

SHEPHEKD, with thy tendered love,
Guide me to thy fold above ;
Let me hear thy gentle voice ;
More and more in thee rejoice ;
From thy fulness grace receive,
Ever in thy Spirit live.

2 Filled by thee my cup o'erflows,
For thy love no limit knowi
Guardian angels, ever nigh,
Lead and draw my sou] <>:i high;
Constant to my latest end,
Thou my footsteps wilt attend.

3 Jesus, with thy pi-
Death is life, and labor r

Guide me while I draw my breath,
Guide me through the gate of death,

And at last, oh, let me stand,
With the sheep at thy right hand.

As

0Z4 Psnlm 42. 7s.

S the hart, with eager looks,
Panteth for the water-brooks,
So my soul, athirst for thee,
Pants the living God
When, oh, when with filial fear,
Lord, shall I to thee draw near?

272 The Christian Life.

2 Why art thou cast down, my soul?
God, thy God, shall make thee whole;
Why art thou disquieted ?
God shall lift thy fallen head,
And his countenance benign
Be the saving health of thine.

525

The Oiilclli&e Heart. 7s.

QUIET, Lord, my fro ward heart ;
Make me teachable and mild,
Upright, simple, free from art:
Make me as a weaned child,
From distrust and envy free,
Pleased with all that pleases thee.

What thou shalt to-day provide,

Let me as a child receive ;
What to-morrow may betide,

Calmly to thy wisdom leave :
'Tis enough that thou wilt care ;
Why should I the burden bear?

As a little child relies

On a care beyond his own,
Knows he's neither strong nor wise,

Fears to stir a step alone ;
Let me thus with thee abide,
As my Father, Guard, and Guide.

526

Isaiah 40 : 11. 8s «& 7s.

SAVIOUR, like a shepherd lead us,
Much we need thy tender care;
In thy pleasant pastures feed us;
For our use thy folds prepare :

Blessed Jesus!
Thou hast bought us, thine we are.

2 Thou hast promised to receive us,
Poor and sinful though we be;

Looking to Jesus. 373

Thou hast mercy to relieve us,

Grace to cleanse and power to free:

Blessed Jesus!
Let us early turn to thee.

Early let us seek thy favor ;

Early let us learn thy will;
Do thou, Lord, our only Saviour,

With thy love our bosoms fill:
Blessed Jesus!

Thou hast loved us, — love us still!

0

Xiul "Rejoice Always." Ss A 7s.

MY soul! what means this sadness?

Wherefore art thou thus cast down?
Let thy griefs be turned to <_rladness,
Bid thy restless fears begone;

Look to Jesus,
And rejoice in his dear name.

Though (list i v. attend thee,

And thou tread's! the thorny road;

His right hand Bhall still defend thee ;
Soon he'll bring thee borne to (iod.

Therefore praise him,
Praise the great Redeemer's name.

3 Oh that I could now adore him
Like the heavenly host above,
Who forever how before him,
And unceasing Bing his love!

Happy bob
When shall 1 your chorus join?

rnn Prayer for <i!ui<laiic<\ Pardon,

0 LvJ ami .Joy. 8s & 7s.

LEAD us, heavenly Father! lead us
O'er the world's tempestuous sea;
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
For we have no help but thee.

374 The Christian Life.

1

Yet possessing
Every blessing,
If our God ur Father be.

2 Saviour! breathe forgiveness o'er us;

All our weakness thou dost know;
Thou didst tread this earth before us,
Thou didst feel its keenest woe.

Lone and dreary,

Faint and weary,
Through the desert thou didst go.

3 Spirit of our God descending!

Fill our hearts with heavenly joy;
Love with every passion blending,
Pleasure that can never cloy.

Thus provided,

Pardoned, guided,
Nothing can our peace destroy.

529

Psalm 23. 7s.

TO thy pastures fair and large,
Heavenly Shepherd, lead thy charge,
And my couch, with tenclerest care,
'Mid the springing grass prepare.

When I faint with summer's heat,
Thou shalt guide my weary feet
To the streams that, still and slow,
Through the verdant meadows flow.

Safe the dreary vale I tread,
By the shades of death o'erspread,
With thy rod and staff supplied,
This my guard, and that my guide.

Constant to my latest end,
Thou my footsteps shalt attend ;
And shalt bid thy hallowed dome
Yield me an eternal home.

Prayers for Grace. 375

(J 1 John 4: 19. 7s.

SAVIOUR! teach me day by day,
Love's sweet lesson to obey;
Sweeter lesson cannot be,
Loving him who first loved me.

2 With a childlike heart of love,
At thy bidding may I move;
Prompt to serve and follow thee,
Loving him who first loved me.

3 Teach me all thy steps to trace,
Strong to follow in thy grace ;
Learning how to love from thee,
Loving him who first loved me.

4 Love in loving finds employ,
In obedience all her joy ;
Ever new that joy will be,
Loving him who first loved me.

5 Thus may I rejoice to show
That I feel the love I owe;
Singing, till thy face I see,

Of his love who first loved me.

)31

"Glorify thyself in me." 7s.

FATHER of eternal grace,
Glorify thyself in me:
Meekly beaming in my face,
May the world thine image see.

2 Happy only in thy love,

Poor, unfriended, or unknown,
Fix my thoughts on things above,
Stay my heart on thee alone.

3 Humble, holy, all resigned

To thy will; thy will be done!
Give me, Lord, the perfect mind
Of thy well-beloved Son.

376 The Christian Life.

4 Counting gain and glory loss,

May I tread the path he trod, —
Die with Jesus on the cross,
Rise with him to thee, my God.

Doxology-

PRAISE the name of God most high,
Praise him, all below the sky;
Praise him, all ye heavenly host,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

liOve IMvine. 8s <fc 7s.

532

LOVE divine, all love excelling,
Joy of heaven to earth come down,
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,

All thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,

Pure, unbounded love thou art ;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter every trembling heart.

2 Breathe, oh, breathe thy loving spirit

Into every troubled breast ;
Let us all in thee inherit,

Let us find that Second Rest :
Come, almighty to deliver,

Let us all thy life receive ;
Speedily return, and never,

Never more thy temples leave.

3 Finish then thy new creation,

Pure, unspotted may we be;
Let us see thy great salvation

Perfectly restored in thee :
Changed from glory into glory,

Till in heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee,

Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

Jesus, Love Divine and Light of Men. 377

j)O0 Jolm 1: 9. 8s & 7s.

LIGHT of those whose dreary dwelling
Borders on the shades of death,
Rise on us, thyself revealing, —
Rise, and chase the clouds beneath.

I Thou of heaven and earth Creator,
In our deepest darkness rise;
Scatter all the night of nature ;
Pour the day upon our eyes.

Still we wait for thine appearing ;

Life and joy thy beams impart,
Chasing all our fears, and cheering

Every poor, benighted heart.

4 By thine all-sufficient merit,
Every burdened soul release;
Every weary, wandering spirit
Guide into thy perfect peace.

5u4 Isaiah 60 : IS. Ss A: 7s.

EAR what God the Lord hath spoken;

H]

O my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken,

Fair abodes I build for you ;
Scenes of heartfelt tribulation

Shall no more perplex your ways;
You shall name your walls "Salvation,"

And your gates shall all be " Praise."

Ye, no more your suns descending,

Waning moons no more shall see,
But, your griefs forever ending,

Find eternal noon in me.
God shall rise, and shining o'er you,

Change to day the gloom of night ;
He, the Lord, shall be your Glory,

God your everlasting Light.

378 The Christian Life.

roc "I am with yon alway."-

OOO Matt. 28 : 20. 8s & 7sJ

ALWAYS with us, always with us, —
Words of cheer and words of love ;
Thus the risen Saviour whispers,
From his dwelling-place above.

2 With us when we toil in sadness,

Sowing much and reaping none ;
Telling us that in the future
Golden harvests shall be won.

3 With us when the storm is sweeping

O'er our pathway dark and drear ;
Waking hope within our bosoms,
Stilling every anxious fear.

4 With us in the lonely valley,

When we cross the chilling stream ;
Lighting up the steps to glory
With salvation's radiant beam.

OOU Matt. 27 : 36. 8s «& 7s.

SWEET the moments, rich in blessing,
Which before the cross we spend ;
Life and health and peace possessing,
From the sinner's dying Friend.

2 Truly blessed is this station,

Low before his cross to lie,
While we see divine compassion
Beaming in his gracious eye.

3 Love and grief our hearts dividing,

With our tears his feet we bathe ;
Constant still, in faith abiding,
Life deriving from his death.

4 For thy sorrows we adore thee,

For the pains that wrought our peace ;
Gracious Saviour ! we implore thee
In our souls thy love increase.

Consolation in Christ. 370

Still in ceaseless contemplation,
Fix our hearts and eyes on thee,

Till we taste thy full salvation,
And, unveiled, thy glories see.

)0 / Psalsn 18: 35. 8s «fc 7s.

GENTLY, Lord, oh, gently lead us
Through this lonely vale of tears ;
Through the changes thou'st decreed us,
Till our last, great change appears.

When temptation's darts assail us,
When in devious paths we stray,

Let thy goodness never fail us,
Lead us in thy perfect way.

> In the hour of pain and anguish,

In the hour when deal;! draw- near,
Suffer not our hearts to languish,
Suffer not our soul to fear.

1 And, when mortal life is ended,
]>id us on thy b

Till, by angel-band I d,

We awake among the bl

Doxology*

PRAISE the Father, earth and heaven,
Praise the >;>»:i. the Spirit praise,
As it was, and i m

Glory through eternal days.

OOO Heb. 18: 8. I*M.

SWEETER to Jesus when on earth,
Than angel's praise, the prayers of men;
And still thou arl th 0 Lord,

The same dear Christ that thou wert then.

2 We have no tears thou wilt not dry;

We have no wounds thou wilt not heal ;

380 The Christian Life.

No sorrows pierce our human hearts,
That thou, dear Saviour, dost not feel.

3 Thy pity like the dew distils,

And thy compassion, like the light,
Our every morning overfills,

And crowns with stars our every night.

4 Let not the world's rude conflict drown

The charmed music of thy voice,
That calls all weary souls to rest,
And bids all mourning souls rejoice.

OOu Jolm 19: 25. I<. M.

DEAR Lord, amid the throng that pressed
Around thee on the cursed tree,
Some loyal, loving hearts were there,
Some pitying eyes that wept for thee.

2 Like them, may we rejoice to own

Our dying Lord, though crowned with
thorn ;
Like thee, thy blessed self, endure
The cross with all its joy or scorn.

3 Thy cross, thy lonely path below,

Show what thy brethren all should be,
Pilgrims on earth, disowned by those
Who see no beauty, Lord, in thee.

u4U JTo2in 17: 24. L.M.

LET me be with thee where thou art,
My Saviour, my eternal Rest ;
Then only will this longing heart
Be fully and forever blest.

2 Let me be with thee where thou art,
Thine unveiled glory to behold ;
Then only will this wandering heart
Cease to be false to thee and cold.

Rest in Christ. 381

Let me be with thee where thou art,
Where spotless saints thy name adore ;

Then only will this sinful heart
Be evil and defiled no more.

I Let me be with thee where thou art,

Where none can die, where none remove ;
There neither death nor life will part
Me from thy presence and thy love.

341 Rest in Christ . I<. M.

MY only Saviour ! when I feel
O'erwhelmed in spirit, faint, oppressed,
Tis sweet to tell thee, while I kneel
Low at thy feet, thou art my rest.

2 I'm weary of the strife within ;

Strong powers against my soul contest ;
Oh, let me turn from self and sin
To thy dear cross, for there is rest !

Oh, sweet will be the welcome day,

When from her toils and woes released,

My parting soul in death shall Bay,
" Now, Lord, I come to thee for rest."

54^ Mark S: 3S. !*.&

JESUS! and shall it ever be,
A mortal man ashamed of thee? —
Ashamed of thee whom angels praise,
Whose glories shine through endless days.

Ashamed of Jesus ! sooner far
Let evening blush to own a star ;
He sheds the beams of light divine
O'er this benighted soul of mine.

Ashamed of Jesus ! that dear Friend
On whom my hopes of heaven depend !
No ; — when I blush, be this my shame,
That I no more revere his name.

382 The Christian Life.

4 Ashamed of Jesus ! yes, I may,
When I've no guilt to wash away ;
No tear to wipe, no good to crave,
No fears to quell, no soul to save.

5 Till then— nor is my boasting vain —
Till then I boast a Saviour slain!
And oh, may this my glory be,
That Christ is not ashamed of me !

04O Delight in Clarist. I>. HI .

JESUS, thou joy of loving hearts !
Thou Fount of life ! thou Light of men !
From the best bliss that earth imparts,
We turn unfilled to thee again.

2 Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood ;

Thou saves t those that on thee call ;
To them that seek thee thou art good,
To them that find thee, All in all !

3 We taste thee, O thou Living Bread,

And long to feast upon thee still ;
We drink of thee, the Fountain Head,
And thirst our souls from thee to fill.

4 Our restless spirits yearn for thee,

Where'er our changeful lot is cast ;
Glad, when thy gracious smile we see,
Blest, when our faith can hold thee fast.

5 O Jesus, ever with us stay,

Make all our moments calm and bright ;
Chase the dark night of sin away, — -
Shed o'er the world thy holy light !

544 €ol. 1:19. Ii.M.

FOUNTAIN of grace, rich, full, and free,
What need I that is not in thee ?
Full pardon, strength to meet the day,
And peace which none can take away.

"Jesus our Leader and Saviour. 383

2 Doth sickness fill the heart with fear?
'Tis sweet to know that thou art near ;
Am I with dread of justice tried ?

Tis sweet to feel that Christ hath died.

3 In life, thy promises of aid
Forbid my heart to be afraid ;

In death, peace gently veils the eyes ;
Christ rose, and I shall surely rise.

4 O all-sufficient Saviour ! be
This all-sufficiency to me ;

Nor pain, nor sin, nor death can harm
The weakest, shielded by thine arm.

545

liiiko 5: 11. 8s & 5s.

JESUS, still lead on
Till our rest be won ;
And although the way be cheerless,
We will follow, calm and i'eaiv
Guide us by thy hand
To our Fatherland !

If the way be drear,

If the foe be near,
Let not faithless Tears o'ertake us,
Let not faith and hope forsake us;

For, through many a foe,

To our home we go!

When we seek relief
From a long-felt grief;

When temptations come alluring,
Make ua patient and enduring:
Show us that bright shore

Where we weep no more!

Jesus, still lead on,

Till our rest be won ;
Heavenly Leader, still direct us,
Still support, console, protect us,

Till we safely stand

In our Fatherland !

547

384 The Christian Life.

546 63&4S,

Y faith looks up to thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour divine !
Now hear me while I pray ;
Take all my guilt away ;
Oh, let me, from this day,
Be wholly thine !

May thy rich grace impart
Strength to my fainting heart ;

My zeal inspire ;
As thou hast died for me,
Oh ! may my love to thee
Pure, warm, and changeless be —

A living fire.

While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,

Be thou my guide ;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow's tears away,
Nor let me ever stray

From thee aside.

When ends life's transient dream,
When death's cold, sullen stream

Shall o'er me roll ;
Blest Saviour, then, in love,
Fear and distrust remove ;
Oh, bear me safe above —

A ransomed soul.

" €> Saci-ed Head." 7s «& 6s

SACKED Head, now wounded,
With grief and shame weighed down ;
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns, thy only crown ;

yes us9 Dying Sorrow and Love. 385

O sacred Head, what glory,
What bliss till now was thine !

Yet though despised and gory,
I joy to call thee mine.

O noblest brow and dearest,

In other days the world
All feared when thou appearedst ;

What shame on thee is hurled ;
How art thou pale with anguish,

With sore abuse and scorn !
How does that visage languish

Which once was bright as morn!

What language shall I borrow,

To thank thee, dearest Friend,
For this thy dying sorrow,

Thy pity without end?
Oh, make me thine forever,

And should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never

Outlive my love to thee.

If I, a wretch, should leave thee,
O Jesus, leave not me J

In faith may 1 receive thee,

When death shall set me free.
When strength and comfort languish,

And I must hence depart,
Release me then from anguish,

By thine own wounded heart.

Be near when I am dying,

Oh, show thy cross to me !
And for my succor flying,

Come, Lord, to set me free.
These eyes new faith receiving,

From Jesus shall not move ;
For he wTho dies believing,

Dies safely — through thy love.

25

386 The Christian Life.

548

549

Lotig-iiiR' to see Christ. 7s <fc \

0 CHRIST, I long to know thee,
As thou art known above ;
Long, face to face, to show thee,

In faultless praise my love.
But thou thyself now hidest

Beyond my feeble sense ;
Though all my steps thou guidest,
Thine arm my sure defence.

O'erpowering is the splendor

Of thy pure unveiled throne,
Where bright archangels render

A service all their own ;
That glory, sight-confounding,

Those wonders rich and rare,
The anthems high-resounding,

This mortal could not bear.

Yet, Lord, to see thee, pining,

In thought I oft ascend,
And where thy hosts are shining,

I, too, before thee bend.
As one all sweetly dreaming,

Celestial bliss I feel ;
And in that moment's seeming,

Glow with a seraph's zeal.

When from this dream awaking,

A weary pilgrim still,
Sloth from my spirit shaking,

With fixed, unfaltering will,
My soul, in courage stronger,

Holds on her toilsome way,
Content to watch yet longer,

Till dawns the wished-for day.

Abiding in Christ. 7s «fc 6s,

OLAMB of God ! still keep me
Near to thy wounded side ;

J biding in Christ. 387

'Tis only there in safety

And peace I can abide !
What foes and snares surround me!

What doubts and fears within !
The grace that sought and found me

Alone can keep me clean.

'Tis only in thee hiding,

I feel my life secure, —
Only in thee abiding,

The conflict can endure ;
Thine arm the victory gaineth

O'er every hateful foe ;
Thy love my heart sustaineth

In all its care and woe.

Soon shall my eyes behold thee,

With rapture, face to face ;
One half hath not been told me

Of all thy power and grace ;
Thy beauty, Lord, and glory,

The wonders of thy love,
Shall be the endless story

Of all thy saints above.

Christ a Refuge. 7s.

JESUS, Lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the nearer waters roll,

While the tempest still is high.
Hide me, O my Saviour, hide,
Till the storm of life is past ;
Safe into the haven guide ;
Oh, receive my soul at last.

Other refuge have I none ;

Hangs my helpless soul on thee ;
Leave, ah, leave me not alone ;

Still support and comfort me :

388 The Christian Life.

All ray trust on thee is stayed,
All my help from thee I bring ;

Cover my defenceless head

With the shadow of thy wing.

3 Thou, O Christ, art all I want ;

More than all in thee I find :
Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,

Heal the sick, and lead the blind.
Just and holy is thy name ;

I am all unrighteousness ;
False and full of sin I am ;

Thou art full of truth and grace.

4 Plenteous grace with thee is found,—

Grace to cover all my sin ;
Let the healing streams abound ;

Make and keep me pure within.
Thou of life the fountain art ;

Freely let me take of thee ;
Spring thou up within my heart :

Rise to all eternity.

551 2*lail. 1: 21. 9|

CHRIST, of all my hopes the ground,
Christ, the spring of all my joy,
Still in thee let me be found,

Still for thee my powers employ.

2 Fountain of o'erfiowing grace,

Freely from thy fulness give:
Till I close my earthly race,
Be it "Christ for me to live."

3 When I touch the blessed shore,

Back the closing waves shall roll ;

Death's dark stream shall never moie

Part from thee my ravished soul.

4 Thus, oh, thus an entrance give

To the land of cloudless sky !

Having known it "Christ to live,"

Let me know it " Rain to die."

Rock of Ages, 389

OL 1 Cop. 10: 4. 7s.

ROCK of Ages ! cleft for me ;
Let me hide myself in thee !
Let the water and the blood,
From thy riven side that flowed,
Be of sin the double cure, —
Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone :
Thou must save, and thou alone !
Nothing in my hand I bring ;
Simply to thy cross I cling.

While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyelids cloa • in death,
When I soar to world- unknown,
See thee on thy judgment throne, —
Rock of Ages! cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee !

)5vJ "HavePhyoiimer 7s.

»ITY, Lord ! the child of clay,

p1

Who can only weep and pray, —
Only on thy love depend :
Thou who art the sinner's Friend, —
Thou the sinner's only plea, —
Jesus, Saviour, pity me!

From thy flock, a straying lamb,
Tender Shepherd, though I am,

Now upon the mountain cold,
Lost, I long to gain the fold,
And within thine arms to be:
Jesus, Saviour, pity me !

Oh, where stillest streams are poured,
In green pastures lead me, Lord!
Bring me back, where angels sound
Joy to the poor wanderer found ;

390 The Christian Life.

Evermore my Shepherd be :
Jesus, Saviour, pity me !

554 Conflict with Sin. 7:

ONCE I thought my mountain strong,
Firmly fixed, no more to move ;
Then my Saviour was my song,

Then my soul was filled with love :
Those were happy, golden days,
Sweetly spent in prayer and praise.

2 Little then myself I knew,

Little thought of Satan's power ;
Now I feel my sins anew,

Now I feel the stormy hour :
Sin has put my joys to flight,
Sin has turned my day to night.

3 Saviour ! shine and cheer my soul,

Bid my dying hopes revive ;
Make my wounded spirit whole ;

Far away the tempter drive :
Speak the word, and set me free :
Let me live alone to thee.

555

Gen. 28 : 10-22. 6s «fc 4«

"VTEARER, my God, to thee,
jLl Nearer to thee :
Ev'n though it be a cross

That raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee.

Though like a wanderer,

Daylight all gone,
Darkness be over me,

My rest a stone,
Yet in my dreams Fd be
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee.

Nearer to God. 391

3 There let the way appear

Steps up to heaven ;
All that thou sendest me

In mercy given,
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee.

4 Then with my waking thoughts,

Bright with thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs

Bethel I'll raise ;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee.

5 Or if on joyful wing,

Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot,

Upward I fly,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee.

Psalm 39 : 12. 6* A: 4s.

I'M but a stranger here,
Heaven is my home ;
Earth is a desert drear,
Heaven is my home :
Danger and sorrow stand
Round me on every hand ;
Heaven is my fatherland, —
Heaven is my home.

What though the tempest rage,

Heaven is my home;
Short is my pilgrimage,

Heaven is my home :
Time's cold and wintry blast
Soon will be overpast ;

392 - The Christian Life.

I shall reach home at last ;
Heaven is my home.

3 There, at my Saviour's side,
Heaven is my home ;
I shall be glorified,

Heaven is my home :
There are the good and blest,
Those I loved most and best,
And there I, too, shall rest ;
Heaven is my home I

557

Psalm 31. S. M.

Y spirit on thy care,
Blest Saviour, I recline ;
Thou wilt not leave me to despair,
For thou art love diving

2 In thee I place my trust;

On thee I calmly rest:
I know thee good, I know thee just,
And count thy choice the best.

3 Whate'er events betide,

Thy will they all perform ;
Safe in thy breast my head I hide,
Nor fear the coming storm.

4 Let good or ill befall,

It must be good for me, —
Secure of having thee in all,
Of having all in thee.

558

Psalm 23. S. M.

WHILE my Redeemer's near,
My Shepherd and my Guide,
I bid farewell to anxious fear :
My wants are all supplied.

2 To ever fragrant meads,

Where rich abundance grows,

Confidence and Hope. 393

His gracious hand indulgent leads,
And guards my sweet repose.

3 Dear Shepherd, if I stray,
My wand'ring feet restore ;
And* guard me with thy watchful eye,
And let me rove no more.

559 2 Cor. 5:7. S. M.

TF through unruffled seas
JL Toward heav'n we calmly sail,
With grateful hearts, O God, to thee,
We'll own the fost'ring gale.

2 But should the surges rise,

And rest delay to come,
Blest be the sorrow, kind the storm,
Which drives us nearer home.

3 Soon shall our doubts and tears

All yield to thy control;
Thy tender mercies shall illume
The midnight of the soul.

4 Teach us, in every state,

To make thy will our own;
And when the joys of sense depart,

To live by faith alone.

560 IMiil. 4: 13. S. M.

0 SAVIOUR, who didst come
By water and by blood;
Confessed on earth, adored in heaven,
Eternal Son of God!

2 By faith in thee we live,

By faith in thee we stand ;
By thee we vanquish sin and death,
And gain the heavenly land.

394 The Christian Life.

3 O Lord, increase our faith,
Our fearful spirits calm;
Sustain us through this mortal strife,

Then give the victor's palm

561 Psalm 25. &. ML.

MINE eyes and my desire
Are ever to the Lord ;
I love to plead his promises,
And rest upon his word.

2 Lord, turn thee to my soul ;

Bring thy salvation near :
When will thy hand release my feet
From sin's destructive snare?

3 When shall the sovereign grace

Of my forgiving God
Restore me from those dangerous ways
My wandering feet have trod ?

4 Oh, keep my soul from death,

Nor put my hope to shame!
For I have placed my only trust
In my Redeemer's name.

5 With humble faith I wait

•To see thy face again ;
Of Israel it shall ne'er be said,
He sought the Lord in vain.

A]

5 U L Jolin 13 : 7. S. M.

LONG my earthly way,
How many clouds are spread!
Darkness, with scarce one cheerful ray,
Seems gathering o'er my head.

Yet, Father, thou art Love ;

Oh, hide not from my view!
But when I look, in prayer, above,

Appear in mercy through !

Waiting on God. 395

3 My pathway is not hid ;

Thou knowest all my need ;

And I would do as Israel did, —

Follow where thou wilt lead.

4 Lead me, and then my feet

Shall never, never stray;
But safely I shall reach the seat
Of happiness and day.

5 And oh, from that bright throne

I shall look back, and see, —
The path I went, and that alone,
Was the right path for me.

OUO Psalm 61. S. M.

WHEN overwhelmed with grief,
My heart within me dies;
Helpless, and far from all relief,
To heaven I lift mine eyes.

2 Oh, lead me to the Rock

That's high above my head,
And make the covert of thy wings
My shelter and my shade!

3 Within thy presence, Lord,

Forever I'll abide;
Thou art the tower of my defence,
The refuge where I hide.

4 Thou givest me the lot

Of those that fear thy name;
If endless life be their reward,
I shall possess the same.

564 Psalni 137. S. M.

^AR from my heavenly home,
Far from my Father's breast,
Fainting, I cry, " Blest Spirit, come,
And speed me to my rest !"

F

39 6 The Christian Life.

2 Upon the willows long

My harp has silent hung ;
How should I sing a cheerful song,
Till thou inspire my tongue ?

3 My spirit homeward turns,

And fain would thither flee ;
My heart, O Zion, droops and yearns,
When I remember thee.

4 To thee, to thee I press,—

A dark and toilsome road :
When shall I pass the wilderness,
And reach the saint's abode ?

5 God of my life, be near ;

On thee my hopes I cast :
Oh, guide me through the desert here,
And bring me home at last !

OUO Psalm 126. S. M.

FTTEE harvest dawn is near,
-A- The year delays not long;
And he who sows with many a tear
Shall reap with many a song.

2 Sad to his toil he goes,

His seed with weeping leaves ;
But he shall come at twilight's close,
And bring his golden sheaves.

ODD Keeping Ouard. s.MC.

r ET us keep steadfast guard
^J With lighted hearts all night,
That when Christ comes, we stand prepared,
And meet him with delight.

2 At midnight's season chill

Lay Paul and Silas bound, —
Bound, and in prison sang they still,
And, singing, freedom found.

Watchfulness. Purity. 397

3 Our prison is this earth,

And yet we sing to thee :
Break sin's strong fetters, lead us forth,
Set us, believing, free !

4 Meet for thy realm in heaven,

Make us,"0 holy King!
That through the ages it be given
To us thy praise to sing.

B'

567 Matt. 5: 8. S. If .

LEST are the pure in heart,
) For they shall see their God ;
The secret of the Lord is theirs,
Their soul is Christ's abode.

2 He to the lowly soul

Doth still himself impart;
And for his dwelling and his throne,
Chooseth the part' in heart.

3 Lord, we thy presence seek:

May ours this blessing be;

Oh, give the pure and lowly heart
A temple meet for thee !

OOO Pressing Forward. 8s A 7s.

PILGRIMS in this vale of sorrow
Pressing onward toward the prize,
Strength and com tori here we borrow
From the Hand that rules the skies.

2 'Mid these scenes of self-denial,

We are called the race to run ;
We must meet full many a trial
Ere the victor's crown is won.

3 Love shall every conflict lighten,

Hope shall urge us swifter on,
Faith shall every prospect brighten,
Till the morn of heaven shall dawn.

398 The Christian Life.

4 On the eternal arm reclining,

We, at length, shall win the day ;
All the powers of earth combining
Shall not snatch our crown away.

Oby Zeal Rewarded.— Psalm 126: 6. 8s «fc 7s.

HE that goeth forth with weeping,
Bearing precious seed in love,
Never tiring, never sleeping,
Findeth mercy from above.

2 Soft descend the dews of heaven,

Bright the rays celestial shine ;
Precious fruits will thus be given,
Through an influence all divine.

3 Sow thy seed, be never weary,

Let no fears thy soul annoy ;
Be the prospect ne'er so dreary,
Thou shalt reap the fruits of joy.

4 Lo, the scene of verdure brightening !

See the rising grain appear ;
Look again ! the fields are whitening,
For the harvest time is near.

570 Jolin 15: 4. 8s «fc 7s.

ALL is dying ; hearts are breaking,
Which to ours were closely bound ;
And the lips have ceased from speaking
Which once uttered such sweet sound ;

2 And the arms are powerless lying,

Which were our support and stay;
And the eyes are dim and dying.

Which once watched us night and day.

3 Every thing we love and cherish

Hastens onward to the grave ;
Earthly joys and pleasures perish,
And whate'er the world e'er gave.

Songs in the Night. 399

4 All is fading, all is fleeing ;

Earthly flames must cease to glow,
Earthly beings cease from being,
Earthly blossoms cease to blow.

5 Yet unchanged, while all decayeth,

Jesus stands upon the dust ;
Lean on me alone, he sayeth ;
Hope and love and firmly trust.

6 Oh, abide, abide with Jesus,

Who himself forever lives,
Who from death eternal frees us,
Yea, who life eternal gives !

rrfA Sincerity ami Watchfulness.

Q/l Psalm 19. S.M,

I HEAR thy word with love,
And I would fain obey;
Send thy good Spirit from above,
To guide me Lest 1 Btray.

2 Warn me of every sin,

Forgive my secret faults,
And cleanse this guilty soul of mine,
Whose crimes exceed my thoughts.

3 While with my heart and tongue

I spread thy praise abroad,
Accept the worship and the song,
My Saviour and my God.

572 John Ml **• Hyl-

LET not your heart be faint,
My peace I give to you, —

Such peace as reason never planned,
Nor sinners ever knew.

2 It tells of joys to come ;

It soothes the troubled breast;
It shines, a star amid the storm,—
The harbinger of rest.

400 The Christian Life.

3 Then murmur not, nor mourn,
My people faint and few ;
Though earth to its foundation shake,
My peace I leave with you.

0/U Trustful Activity.— Eccl. 11: 6. S. M.

[OW in the morn thy seed,
At eve hold not thy hand ;
To doubt and fear give thou no heed ;
Broadcast it o'er the land.

s(

2 Then duly shall appear,

In verdure, beauty, strength,
The tender blade, the stalk, the ear,
And the full corn at length.

3 Thou canst not toil in vain ;

Cold, heat, and moist, and dry,
Shall foster and mature the grain
For garners in the sky.

4 Then, when the glorious end,

The day of God shall come,
The angel-reapers shall descend,
And heaven sing, " Harvest home !"

574

Watchfulness. S. M.

A CHARGE to keep I have,
A God to glorify,
A never-dying soul to save,
And fit it for the sky.

To serve the present age,

My calling to fulfil ;
Oh, may it all my powers engage

To do my Master's will.

Arm me with jealous care,

As in thy sight to live ;
And oh, thy servant, Lord, prepare

A strict account to give.

Comfort and Rest in Christ, 40 1

4 Help me to watch and pray,
And on thyself rely ;
Assured, if I my trust betray,
I shall forever die.

>/0 Psalm 55. 7s.

CAST thy burden on the Lord ;
Lean thou only on his word :
Ever will he be thy stay,
Though the heavens shall melt away.

2 Ever in the raging storm,
Thou shalt see his cheering form,
Hear his pledge of coming aid :

" It is I, be not afraid."

3 Cast thy burden at his feet ;
Linger near his mercy-seat:

He will lead thee by the hand
Gently to the better land.

4 He will gird thee by his power,
In thy weary, fainting hour;
Lean, then, loving, on his word ;
Cast thy burden on the Lord.

)7b Kost in Christ. 7s.

DOES the gospel word proclaim
Rest for those that weary be?
Then, my soul, advance thy claim, —
Sure that promise speaks to thee!

2 Marks of grace I cannot show,

All polluted is my best ;
But I weary am, I know,
And the weary long for rest.

3 Burdened with a load of sin,

Harassed with tormenting doubt,
Hourly conflicts from within,
Hourly crosses from without ; —

26

402 The Christian Life.

4 All my little strength is gone,

Sink I must without supply ;
Sure upon the earth is none
Can more weary be than I.

5 In the ark the weary dove

Found a welcome resting-place ;
Thus my spirit longs to prove
Rest in Christ, the Ark of grace.

6 Tempest-tossed I long have been,

And the flood increases fast ;
Open, Lord, and take me in,
Till the storm be overpast !

0/7 John 21: 16.

ARK, my soul ! it is the Lord ;

HJ

Tis thy Saviour ; hear his word ;
Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee ;
" Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me ?

2 " Mine is an unchanging love,
Higher than the heights above,
Deeper than the depths beneath,
Free and faithful, strong as death.

3 " Thou shalt see my glory soon,
When the work of grace is done ;
Partner of my throne shalt be :
Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me ?"

4 Lord ! it is my chief complaint
That my love is cold and faint ;
Yet I love thee, and adore :
Oh for grace to love thee more !

0 / O The Arm of Strength. 7s.

EVERLASTING arms of love
Are beneath, around, above:
He who left his throne of light,
And unnumbered angels bright;

Trials. Jesus' Sympathy. 403

2 He who on th' accursed tree
Gave his precious life for me, —
He it is that bears me on,

His the arm I lean upon.

3 He who now enthroned above,
Still retains his heart of love,
Marking still each falling tear
Of his burdened pilgrims here;

4 He who wields creation's rod,
He my Brother, yet my God;
Faithful he, whatever betide,

Is my everlasting Guide!

5 Scenes will vary, fri< ads grow strange,
But the changeless cannot change:
Gladly will 1 journey on,

With his arm to lean upon.

Die) IIoF>. 12: (» 11. 7s.

TTIIS my happiness below,

A Not to live without the cross.
But tip r to know,

Sanctifying every 1

2 Trials must and will befall ;

But, with humble faith to -
Love inscribed upon them all —
This is happiness to me.

3 Trials make the promise sweet;

Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring me to his fi

Lay me low, and keep me there.

OoU Jfomifl our Refuse. 7s«

WHEN along life's thorny road,
Faints the soul beneath the load,
By its cares and sins oppressed,

Finds on earth no peace or rest ;

404 The Christian Life.

2 When the wily tempter's near,
Filling us with doubts and fear:
Jesus, to thy feet we flee,
Jesus, we will look to thee.

3 Thou, our Saviour, from the throne
List'nest to thy people's moan ;
Thou, the living Head, dost share
Every pang thy members bear.

4 Full of tenderness thou art,
Thou wilt heal the broken heart;
Full of power, thine arm shall quell
All the rage and might of hell.

5 Mighty to redeem and save,
Thou hast overcome the grave ;
Thou the bars of death hast riven,
Opened wTide the gate of heaven.

6 Soon in glory thou shalt come,
Taking thy poor pilgrims home :
Jesus, then we all shall be,
Ever, ever, Lord, with thee!

5 Ol Son of alary. 7s.

WHEN our heads are bowed with woe,
When our bitter tears o'erflow;
When we mourn the lost, the dear,
Jesus, Son of Mary, hear !

2 Thou our throbbing flesh hast worn,
Thou our mortal griefs hast borne ;
Thou hast shed the human tear;
Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!

3 When the heart is sad within,
With the thought of all its sin :
When the spirit shrinks wTith fear,
Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!

4 Thou the shame, the grief hast known,
Though the sins were not thine own ;

Comfort and Peace. 405

Thou hast deigned their load to bear;
Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!

5 When the solemn death-bell tolls
For our own departing souls ;
When our final doom is near,
Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!

6 Thou hast bowed the dying head,
Thou the blood of life hast shed ;
Thou hast filled a mortal bier;
Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!

582 2 lor. 1:5. 78.

IN the dark and cloudy day,
When earth's riches flee away,
And the last hope will not stay,
O my Saviour, comfort me!

2 When the secret idol's gone,
That my poor heart yearned upon, —
Desolate, bereft, alone,
O my Saviour, comfort me!

3 Thou who wast so sorely tried,
In the darkness crucified,
Bid me in thy love confide;

0 my Saviour, comfort me!

4 Comfort me! I am east down;
'Tis my heavenly Father's frown;

1 deserve it all, I own ;
O my Saviour, comfort me I

5 So, it shall be good lor me
Much afflicted now to he,
If thou wilt but tenderly,
O my Saviour, comfort me!

583

J0I111 14: 27. 7s.

►RINCE of peace! control my will;
Bid this struggling heart be still;

406 The Christian Life.

Bid my fears and doubtings cease;
Hush my spirit into peace.

2 Thou hast bought me with thy blood,
Opened wide the gate to God ;
Peace I ask, — but peace must be,
Lord, in being one with thee.

3 May thy will, not mine, be done;
May thy will and mine be one:
Chase these doubtings from my heart;
Now thy perfect peace impart.

Matt. 11 : 28. lis «fc 10s.

584

COME unto me, when shadows darkly
gather,

When the sad heart is weary and distressed ;

Seeking for comfort from your heavenly

Father,

Come unto me, and I will give you rest.

2 Large are the mansions in our Father's

dwelling,
Glad are those homes that sorrows never

dim ;
Sweet are the harps in holy music swelling,
Soft are the tunes that raise the heavenly

hymn.

3 There, like an Eden blossoming in gladness,

Bloom the fair flowers by earth so rudely
pressed ;

Come unto him, all ye who droop in sadness,
" Come unto me, and I will give you rest."

UOO Pray er for -Strength, etc. lis «fc 10s.

LORD, we have wandered forth through
doubt and sorrow,
And thou hast made each step an onward
one;

Prayer for Strength. 407

And we will ever trust each unknown mor-
row,—
Thou wilt sustain us till its work is done.

2 O Father, now in thy dear presence kneeling,
Our spirits yearn to feel thy kindling love ;
Now make us strong through thine own deep
revealing
Of trust and strength and calmness from
above.

Oob John 12: 21. lis & 10s.

WE would see Jesus, for the shadows
lengthen
Across this little landscape of our life ;
We would see Jesus our weak faith to
strengthen,
For the last weariness, the final strife.

We would see Jesus, the great Rock Founda-
tion,
Whereon our feet were set by sovereign
grace ;
Not life, nor death, with all their agitation,
Can thence remove us, if we see his face.

We would see Jesus ; other lights are fading,
Which for long years we have rejoiced to
see ;
The blessings of our pilgrimage are failing,
We would not mourn them, for we go to
thee.

4 We would see Jesus ; this is all we're needing,
Strength, joy, and willingness come with
the sight ;
We would see Jesus, dying, risen, pleading,
Then welcome day, and farewell mortal
night.

OOl The Assaults of Temptation. I<. M.

THE billows swell, the winds are high,
Clouds overcast my wintry sky;

■ J

408 The Christian Life.

Out of the depths to thee I call ;

My fears are great, my strength is small.

2 O Lord, the pilot's part perform,
And guide and guard me through the storm; I
Defend me from each threatening ill,
Control the waves ; say, " Peace be still !"

3 Amid the roaring of the sea,

My soul still hangs her hope on thee ;
Thy constant love, thy faithful care,
Is all that saves me from despair.

4 Though tempest-tossed, and half a wreck,
My Saviour through the floods I seek ;
Let neither winds nor stormy may],
Force back my shattered bark again.

OOO littBte 10: 39. Ii.M.

OH that I could forever dwell,
Delighted at the Saviour's feet ;
Behold the form I love so well,
And all his tender words repeat !

2 The world shut out from all my soul,

And heaven brought in with all its bliss,
Oh, is there aught, from pole to pole,
One moment to compare with this ?

3 This is the hidden life I prize,

A life of penitential love ;
When most my follies I despise,

And raise my highest thoughts above ;

4 When all I am I clearly see,

And freely own, with deepest shame;
When the Redeemer's love to me
Kindles within a deathless flame.

5 Thus would I live till nature fail,

And all my former sins forsake ;
Then rise to God within the veil,
And of eternal joys partake.

Out of the Depths. 409

James 5: 13. L. 3f.

589

GOD of my life, to thee I call !
Afflicted, at thy feet I fall ;
When the great water-floods prevail,
Leave not my trembling heart to fail.

2 Friend of the friendless and the faint,
Where should I lodge my deep complaint?
Where, but with thee, whose open door
Invites the helpless and the poor?

3 Did ever mourner plead with thee,
And thou refuse that mourner's plea?
Does not the word still fixed remain,
That node shall seek thy face in vain ?

4 That were a grief I could not bear,
Didst thou not hear and answer prayer;

But a prayer-hearing, answering God
Supports me under every load.

590 Submission. 6s.

MY Jesus, as thou wilt!
Oh, may thy will be mine!
Into thy hand of love

I would my all resign.
Through sorrow or through joy,

Conduct me as thine own,
And help me still to say,
My Lord, thy will be done!

2 My Jesus, as thou wilt!

Though seen through many a tear,
Let not my star of hope
Grow dim or disappear.

Thou, Lord, on earth along

The thorny path hast gone;
Then lead me after thee; —

My Lord, thy will be done!

410 The Christian Life.

3 My Jesus, as thou wilt!

When death itself draws nigh,
To thy dear wounded side

I would for refuge fly.
Leaning on thee, to go

Where thou before hast gone;
The rest as thou shalt please; —

My Lord, thy will be done!

4 My Jesus, as thou wilt!

All shall be well with me:
Each changing future scene

I gladly trust with thee.
Straight to my home above

I travel calmly on ;
And sing, in life and death,

My Lord, thy will be done!

591 Prov. 3: 6.

THY way, not mine, O Lord,
However dark it be;
Lead me by thine own hand,

Choose out the path for me.
The kingdom that I seek
Is thine : so let the way
That leads to it be thine,
Else surely I must stray.

2 Take thou my cup, and it

With joy or sorrow fill,
As best to thee may seem ;

Choose thou my good and ill.
Not mine, not mine the choice

In things or great or small ;
Be thou my guide, my strength,

My wisdom, and my all.

\J\JCu tfhe Request. C.

FATHER! whate'er of earthly bliss
Thy sovereign will denies,

Sickness and Affliction, 41 1

Accepted at thy throne of grace,
Let this petition rise: —

2 "Give me a calm, a thankful heart,

From every murmur free!
The blessings of thy grace impart,
And make me live to thee.

3 " Let the sweet hope that thou art mine,

My life and death attend;
Thy presence through my journey shine,
And crown my journey's end."

593 "My Times arc in thy Hand." C. H.

WHEN languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet to look beyond our cage,
And long to fly away;

2 Sweet to look inward and attend

The whispers of his love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above;

3 Sweet to reflect how mace divine

My sins on Jesus laid ;
Sweet to remember that his blood
My debt of Bufferings paid;

4 Sweet on his faithfulness to rest,

Whose love can never end;
Sweet on his covenant of grace
For all things to depend;

5 Sweet in the confidence of faith

To trust his firm decrees ;
Sweet to lie passive in his hands,
And know no will but his;

6 Sweet to rejoice in lively hope,

That when my change shall come,
Angels will hover round my bed,
To waft my spirit home.

412 The Christian Life.

7 If such the sweetness of the stream,
What must the fountain be,
Where saints and angels draw their bliss
Immediately from thee?

594

Hos. 5 : 15. C. M.

ICAXXOT call affliction sweet,
And vet 'twas good to bear ;
Affliction brought me to thy feet,
And I found comfort there.

2 My weaned soul was all resigned

To thy most gracious will ;
Oh, had I kept that better mind,
Or been afflicted still !

3 Where are the vows which then I vowed,

The joys which then I knew?
Those vanished like the morning cloud,
These like the early dew.

4 Lord, grant me grace for every day,

Whate'er my state may be, *

Through life, in death, with truth to say,
My God is all to me !

595

" Tny Will be done." C. M.

THY holy will, my God, be mine ;
I yield my all to thee ;
No more shall thought or wish repine,

AYhate'er my lot shall be.
Thy wisdom is a mighty deep,

Beyond my thought thy grace,
My soul shall lay her fears asleep,
Secure in thine embrace.

When clouds and darkness rule the hour,

Thy bow on high I see ;
And e'en the rending tempest's power

Shall work but good for me.

Trusting at all Times in the Lord. 413

At every step mine eyes shall turn
To watch thy guiding hand ;

My dearest wish shall be to learn
And do thy good command.

3 On thee I rest my trusting soul ;

Thou wTilt not let me fall ;
Though surging billows o'er me roll,

I shall be safe through all.
Grant me, my God, at last to hear,

Well pleased, the call to die ;
And 'mid the shades, with vision clear,

To see my Saviour nigh.

390 Heb. 12: 11. CM.

WE praise thee oft for hours of bliss,
For days of quiet rest;
But, ah, how seldom do we feel
That pain and tears are best!
We praise thee for the shining sun,

For kind and gladsome ways;
How shall we Irani, () Lord, to sing
Through weary nights and days?

2 Teach thou our weak and wandering hearts

Aright to read thy way;
That thou, with loving hand, dost trace

Our history every day.
Then every thorny crown of care,

Worn well in patience now,
Shall grow a glorious diadem

Upon the faithful brow.

3 Then every word of grief shall change,

And wave a beauteous flower,
And lift its face beneath our feet,

To bless us every hour.
Then sorrow's face shall be unveiled,

And we, at last, shall see
Her eyes are eyes of tenderness,

Her speech but echoes thee !

414 The Christian Life.

597 Heb. 12: 2. lis.

OEYES that are weary, and hearts that
are sore,
Look off unto Jesus, now sorrow no more ;
The light of his countenance shineth so

bright,

That here, as in heaven, there need be no
night.

2 Looking off unto Jesus, my spirit is blest;
In the world I have turmoil, in him I have

rest !
The sea of this life all about me may roar,
While looking to Jesus, I hear it no more.

3 While looking to Jesus, my heart cannot fear ;
I tremble no more when I see Jesus near ;
I know that his presence my safeguard will be,
For, " Why are you troubled ?" he saith unto

me.

4 Still looking to Jesus, oh, may I be found,
When Jordan's dark waters encompass me

round ;
They bear me away in his presence to be ;
I see him still nearer whom always I see.

5 Then, then shall I know the full beauty and

grace
Of Jesus, my Lord, when I stand face to face ;
Shall know how his love went before me

each day,
And wonder that ever my eyes turned away.

OUU Marie 4: 37-11. lis.

OZION", afflicted writh wTave upon wave;
Whom no man can comfort, whom no
man can save;
With darkness surrounded, by terrors dis-
mayed,
In toiling and rowing thy strength is decayed.

The Lord's Word a Firm Foundation. 415

!2 Loud roaring, the billows now nigh over-
whelm,
But skilful's the Pilot wTho sits at the helm ;
His wisdom conducts thee, his power defends;
In safety and quiet thy warfare he ends.

3 " O fearful ! O faithless !" in mercy he cries;
"My promise, my truth, are they light in

thine eyes ?
Still, still I am with thee, my promise shall

stand ;
Through tempest and tossing I'll bring thee

to land."

599 Heb. 13:5. lis.

HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the
Lord!.
Is laid for your faith in his excellent word !
What more can he say than to you he hath

said, —
To you, who for refuge to Jesus have fled ?

2 " Fear not, I am with thee ; oh, be not dis-

mayed,
For I am thy God, I will still give thee aid :
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee

to stand,
Upheld by my gracious, omnipotent hand.

3 " When through the deep waters I call thee

to go,
The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
For I will be with thee thy trials to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

4 "When through fiery trials thy pathway

shall lie,
My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply,
The flame shall not hurt thee ; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.

41 6 The Christian Life.

5 " E'en down to old age all my people shall

prove

My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love;

And then, when gray hairs shall their tem-
ples adorn,

Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be
borne.

6 " The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for re-

pose,
I will not — I will not desert to his foes ;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor

to shake,
I'll never — no, never — no, never forsake !"

DUO John 14: 18. lis.

COME, Jesus, Kedeemer, abide thou with
me;

Come, gladden my spirit that waiteth for thee ;
Thy smile every shadow shall chase from my

heart,

And soothe every sorrow, though keen be the
smart.

2 Without thee but weakness, with thee I am

strong ;
By day thou shalt lead me, by night be my

song;
Though dangers surround me, I still every

fear,
Since thou, the Most Mighty, my Helper, art

near.

3 Thy love, oh, how faithful ! so tender, so pure !
Thy promise, faith's anchor, how steadfast

and sure !
That love, like sweet sunshine, my cold heart

can warm,
That promise make steady my soul in the

storm.

Christ our All in ML

417

Breathe, breathe on my spirit, oft ruffled, thy

peace ;
From restless, vain wishes, bid thou my heart

cease ;
In thee all its longings henceforward shall

end,
Till, glad, to thy presence my soul shall

ascend.

» Oh, then, blessed Jesus, who once for me died,
Made clean in the fountain that gushed from

thy side,
I shall see thy full glory, thy face shall be-
hold,
And praise thee with raptures forever un-
told!

3U1 Psalm 23. lis.

THE Lord is my shepherd, no want shall
I know;
I feed in green pastures, safe folded I rest;
He leadeth my soul where the still waters
flow,
Restores me when wandering, redeems when
oppressed.

2 Through the valley and shadow of death

though I stray,
Since thou art my guardian, no evil I fear;
Thy rod shall defend me, thy staff be my stay;
No harm can befall, with my Comforter

near.

3 Let goodness and mercy, my bountiful God !

Still follow my steps till I meet thee above ;
I seek — by the path which my forefathers

trod,
Through the land of their sojourn — thy

kingdom of love.

4!& The Christian Life.

OUZ .Iii<lgosS:4. 11S.

THOUGH faint, yet pursuing, we go on
our way ;
The Lord is our Leader, his word is our

stay;
Though suffering and sorrow and trial be

near,
The Lord is our refuge, and whom can we
fear?

2 He raiseth the fallen, he cheereth the faint;
The weak, and oppressed — he will hear their

complaint ;
The way may be weary, and thorny the road,
But how can we falter? our help is in God!

3 Though clouds may surround us, our God is

our light ;
Though storms rage around us, our God is

our might ;
So faint, yet pursuing, still onward we come;
The Lord is our Leader, and heaven is our

home!

t)Uu Psalm 46. Us.

fTlHE Lord is our refuge, the Lord is our
v J- guide;
| We smile upon danger with him at our side;
The billows may blacken, the tempest in-

' crease,
Though earth may be shaken, his saints shall
have peace.

2 A voice still and small by his people is

heard,
A whisper of peace from his life-giving

word ;
A stream in the desert, a river of love,
Flows down to their hearts from the fountain

above.

A Pilgrimage. 419

3 The Lord is our helper! ye scorners, be
awed !

Ye earthlings, he still, and acknowledge
your God :

The proud he will humble, the lowly de-
fend ;

Oh, happy the people with God for a friend!

UU4 The Pilgrim's Son-. S. M.

A FEW more years shaU'roll,
A few more seasons come,
And we shall be with those that rest,

Asleep within the tomb:
Then, O my Lord, prepare

My soul for thai greal day;
Oh, wash me in thy precious blood,
And take my sins away!

2 A few more storms shall beat

On this wild rocky Bhore ;
And we shall be where tempests cease,

And Bui 11 do m<

Then, () my Lord, prepare

My soul for that calm day;
Oh, wash mo in thy precious blood,

And take my Bins away !

3 A few more struggles here,

A few more partings o'er,

A few more toils, a few more tears,

And we shall weep no more.
Then, O my Lord, prepare

My soul for that blot day;
Oh, wash me in thy precious blood,

And take my sins away !

4 A few more Sabbaths here

Shall cheer us on our way ;
And we shall reach the endless rest,
Th' eternal Sabbath-day:

420 The Christian Life.

Then, 0 my Lord, prepare

My soul for that sweet day;
Oh, wash me in thy precious blood,

And take my sins away!

605 Phil. 1:21. S.M.

FOR me to live is Christ,
To die is endless gain,
For him I gladly bear the cross,
And welcome grief and pain.
Faithful may I endure,

And hear my Saviour say,
Thrice welcome home, beloved child,
Inherit endless day !

2 A pilgrimage my lot,

My home is in the skies,
I nightly pitch my tent below,

And daily higher rise.
My journey soon will end,

My scrip and staff laid down ;
Oh, tempt me not with earthly toys!

I go to wear a crown.

DUb Pilgrim's Song. 8s, 7s «fc 4s.

GUIDE me, O thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim through this barren land ;
I am weak, but thou art mighty ;
Hold me with thy powerful hand ;

Bread of heaven,
Feed me till I want no more.

2 Open thou the crystal fountain

Whence the healing streams do flow ;
Let the fiery, cloudy pillar

Lead me all my journey through ;

Strong Deliverer,
Be thou still my strength and shield.

3 When I tread the verge of Jordan,

Bid my anxious fears subside ;

1 Prayers and Praises of Christian Pilgrims. 42 1

Bear me through the swelling current,
Land me safe on Canaan's side ;

Songs of praises
I will ever give to thee.

uU/ Psalm 91: 11. 8s, 7s «fc 4s.

KEEP us, Lord, oh, keep us ever !
Vain our hope, if left by thee ;
We are thine ; oh, leave us never,
Till thy glorious face we see !

Then to praise thee
Through a bright eternity.

2 Precious is thy word of promise, —

Precious to thy people here;

Never take thy presence from us,

Jesus, Saviour, still be near:

Living, dying,
May thy name our spirits cheer.

Rev. 19: & 8s, 7s «fc 4s.

"ALLELXJJAH ! best and sweetest

Of the hymns of praise above!
Hallelujah ! thou repeal

Angel-host, these notes of love;

This ye utter,
While your golden harps ye move.

2 Hallelujah ! church victorious,
Join the concert of the sky!

Hallelujah ! bright and glorious,
Lift, ye saint-, this strain on high!

We, poor exiles,
Join not yet your melody.

3 Hallelujah ! strains of gladness
Comfort nor the faint and worn;

Hallelujah! sounds of sadness
Best become the heart forlorn ;

Our offences
We with bitter tears must mourn.

H

422 The Christian Life.

4 But our earnest supplication,
Holy God ! we raise to thee ;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Make us all thy peace to see !

Hallelujah !
Ours at length this strain shall be.

Doxology.

GEE AT Jehovah ! we adore thee,
God the Father, God the Son,
God the Spirit, joined in glory
On the same eternal throne ;

Endless praises
To Jehovah, Three in One.

609

Pilgrim's Song. 7s & 6s.

FROM every earthly pleasure,
From every transient joy,
From every mortal treasure,

That soon will fade and die ;
No longer these desiring,

Upward our wishes tend,
To nobler bliss aspiring,
And joys that never end.

From every piercing sorrow

That heaves our breast to-day,
Or threatens us to-morrow,

Hope turns our eyes away ;
On wings of faith ascending,

We see the land of light,
And feel our sorrows ending

In infinite delight.

3 What though we are but strangers
And sojourners below,
And countless snares and dangers
Surround the path we go ;

Encouragements. 423

Though painful and distressing,

Yet there's a rest above ;
And onward still we're pressing,

To reach that land of love.

610 " Me I^eadeth me." 7s <fc 6s.

IN heavenly love abiding,
No change my heart shall fear,
And safe is such confiding,

For nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me,

My heart may low be laid,
But God is round about me,
And can I be dismayed?

2 Wherever he may guide me,

No want shall turn me back;
My Shepherd is beside me,

And nothing can I lack.
His wisdom ever waketh ;

His Bight is never dim ;
He knows the way he taketh,

And I will walk with him.

3 Green pastures are before me,

Which yet 1 have not seen;
Bright ski'es will soon be o'er me,

Where the dark cloudfl have been.
My hope I cannot measure,

My path to life is free,
My Saviour has my treasure,

And he will walk with me.

611 Isaiah as: 8-10. *«■

CHILDREN of the heavenly King,
As ve journey, sweetly sing;
Sing your Saviour's worthy praise,
Glorious in his works and ways.

424 The Christian Life.

2 Ye are travelling home to God,
In the way the fathers trod ;
They are happy now, and ye
Soon their happiness shall see.

3 Shout, ye little flock, and blest!
You on Jesus' throne shall rest;
There your seat is now prepared ;
There your kingdom and reward.

4 Fear not, brethren; joyful stand
On the borders of your land;
Jesus Christ, your Father's Son,
Bids you undismayed go on.

5 Lord, submissive make us go.
Gladly leaving all below;
Only thou our Leader be,
And we still will follow thee.

O1

DlZ Pressing Onward. 7s.

^FT in sorrow, oft in woe,
Onward, Christian, onward go !
Fight the fight, maintain the strife,
Strengthened with the bread of life.

2 Onward, Christian, onward go!
Join the war, and face the foe :
Will you flee in danger's hour?
Know you not your Captain's power?

3 Let your drooping hearts be glad ;
March, in heavenly armor clad ;
Fight, nor think the battle long;
Soon shall vict'ry tune your song.

4 Let not sorrow dim your eye ;
Soon shall every tear be dry :
Let not fears your course impede ;
Great your strength, if great your need.

The Joy set before us. 425

5 Onward, then, to battle move!

More than conqu'ror you shall prove;
Though opposed by many a foe,
Christian soldier, onward go !

)lO Rejoicing in the Ways of God. 7s.

NOW begin the heavenly theme,
Sing aloud in Jesus' name!
Ye, who his salvation prove,
Triumph in redeeming love.

2 Ye, who see the Father's grace
Beaming in the Saviour's face,
As to Canaan on ye move,
Praise and bless redeeming love.

3 Mourning souls! dry up your tears,
Banish all your guilty fears:
See your guilt and curse remove,
Cancelled by redeeming love.

4 Hither, then, your tribute bring,
Strike aloud each joyful string:
Saints below and saints above,
Join to praise redeeming love.

01 4 " The Joy svi before n§." 6s A 7s.

"ILL not that joyful be?

w1

When we walk by faith no more,
When the Lord we loved before,

As brother man we see;
When he welcomes us above,
When we share his smile of love,

Will not that joyful be?

Will that not joyful be,
When to meet us rise and come
All our buried treasures home,

A gladsome company !

426 The Christian Life.

When our arms embrace again
Those we mourned so long in vain,
Will that not joyful be?

3 Will that not joyful be,

When we hear what none can tell,
And the ringing chorus swell

Of angels' melody!
When we join their songs of praise,
Hallelujahs with them raise,

Will that not joyful be?

615 6s «fc 7s.

WE are on our journey home,
Where Christ, our Lord, is gone ;
We shall meet around his throne,
When he makes his people one;
In the new Jerusalem.

2 We can see that distant home,

Though clouds rise dark between:
Faith views the radiant dome,
And a lustre flashes keen
From the new Jerusalem.

3 O glory shining far

From the never-setting Sun!
O trembling morning-star!
Our journey's almost done
To the new Jerusalem.

OlO Psalm 60: 4. S. M.

AEISE, ye saints, arise!
The Lord our Leader is ;
The foe before his banner flies,
And victory is his.

2 We follow thee, our Guide,
Our Saviour, and our King!
We follow thee, through grace supplied
From heaven's eternal spring.

Christian Watchfulness. 427

3 We soon shall see the day

When all our toils shall cease ;
When we shall cast our arms away,
And dwell in endless peace.

4 This hope supports us here;

It makes our burdens light ;
'Twill serve our drooping hearts to cheer,
Till faith shall end in sight.

5 Till, of the prize possessed,

We hear of war no more;

And ever with our Leader rest,

On yonder peaceful shore.

(3l7 JGph. 6: 11-14. S. M.

SOLDIERS of Christ! arise,

>J And put your armor on, —
Strong in the strength which God supplies
Through his eternal Bon, —

2 Strong in the Lord of hosts,

And in his mighty power:
Who in the strength of Jesus trusts
Is more than conqueror.

3 Stand, then, in his great might,
With all his Btrength endued)

But take, to arm you for the fight,
The panoply of ( rod :

4 That, having all things done,
And all your conflicts past,

Ye may o'ercome, through Christ alone,
And stand entire at last.

01 0 "Wateh ye therefore.""— Matt. 25 : 13. S. M.

"E servants of the Lord,
Each in his office wait,

Observant of his heavenly word, —
And watchful at his gate.

Y

428 The Christian Life.

2 Let all your lamps be bright,

And trim the golden flame ;
Gird up your loins as in his sight,
For awful is his name.

3 Watch ! 'tis your Lord's command ;

And while we speak, he's near:
Mark the first signal of his hand,
And ready all appear.

4 Oh, happy servant he

In such a posture found !
He shall his Lord with rapture see,
And be with honor crowned.

I>oxolog:y.

YE angels round the throne,
And saints that dwell below,
Worship the Father, praise the Son,
And bless the Spirit, too.

Dia Watchfulness.— Matt. 26: 41. S. M

MY soul, be on thy guard,
Ten thousand foes arise;
And hosts of sin are pressing hard
To drawr thee from the skies.

2 Oh, watch and fight and pray!

The battle ne'er give o'er ;
Renew it boldly every day,
And help divine implore.

3 Ne'er think the victory won,

Nor once at ease sit down ;
Thy arduous work will not be done
Till thou obtain thy crown.

4 Fight on, my soul, till death

Shall bring thee to thy God !
He'll take thee at thy parting breath,
Up to his blest abode.

Cheerfulness. 429

I 20 Joy .-Phil, i : 4. S. M.

REJOICE inGodalway;
When earth looks heavenly bright,
When joy makes glad the livelong day,
And peace shuts in the night.

Rejoice when care and woe

The fainting soul oppress ;
When tears at wakeful midnight flow,

And morn brings heaviness.

3 Rejoice in hope and fear;

Rejoice in life and death ;
Rejoice when threatening storms are near,
And comfort languisheth,

4 When should not they rejoice,

Whom Christ his brethren calls;
Who hear and know his guiding voice,
When on their hearts it falls?

5 So, though our path is steep,

And many a tempest lowers,
Shall his own peace our spirits keep,
And Christ's dear love be ours.

w

Psalm 188: 5. s. n.

OW let our voices join
To form a sacred song;
Ye pilgrims, in Jehovah's ways,
With music pass along.

2 How straight the path appeals,
How open and how fair I

No lurking gins t' entrap our feet;
No fierce destroyer there.

3 But flowers of paradise
In rich profusion spring;

The sun of glory gilds the path,
And dear companions sing.

430 The Christian Life.

4 See Salem's golden spires

In beauteous prospect rise ;
And brighter crowns than mortals wear,
Which sparkle through the skies.

5 All honor to his name,

Who marks the shining way ;
To him who leads the wanderers on
To realms of endless day.

uJjZ Zeal.— Jolisi 9 : 4. I,. M

GO, labor on, while it is day;
The world's dark night is hastening on ;
Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away!
It is not thus that souls are won.

2 Men die in darkness at your side,

Without a hope to cheer the tomb :
Take up the torch and wave it wide, —
The torch that lights time's thickest gloom,

3 Toil on ; faint not ; keep watch and pray!

Be wise the erring soul to . win ;
Go forth into the world's highway ;
Compel the wanderer to come in.

4 Go, labor on ; your hands are weak ;

Your knees are faint, your soul cast down ;
Yet falter not ; the prize you seek
Is near, — a kingdom and a crown !

5 Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice;

For toil comes rest, for exile, home ;
Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice,
The midnight peal, " Behold I come !"

0^0 Epls. 6: 14. I«.M.

iTAND up, my soul ! shake off thy fears,

s

And gird the gospel armor on !
March to the gates of endless joy,

Where Jesus thy great Captain's gone.

Enthusiasm. 431

Hell and thy sins resist thy course ;

But hell and sin are vanquished foes,
Thy Jesus nailed them to the cross,

And sung the triumph when he rose.

\ Then let my soul march boldly on ;
Press forward to the heavenly gate ;
There peace and joy eternal reign,

And glittering robes for conquerors wait.

\ i Then shall I wear a starry crown,
And triumph in almighty grace ;
While all the armies of the skies
Join in my glorious Leader's praise.

0^4 Isaiah 40: 28-31. I,. 3f .

AWAKE our souls, away our fears,
Let every trembling thought be gone ;
Awake and run the heavenly race,
And put a cheerful courage on.

2 True, 'tis a straight and thorny road,
And mortal spirits tire and faint;

But they forget the mighty God

That feeds the strength of every saint : —

3 The mighty God whose matchless power
Is ever new and ever young,

And firm endures while endless years
Their everlasting circles run.

4 From thee, the overflowing spring,
Our souls shall drink a fresh supply,

While such as trust their native strength
Shall melt away, and droop and die.

5 Swift as an eagle cuts the air,

We'll mount aloft to thine abode ;
On wings of love our souls shall fly,
Nor tire amid the heavenly road.

432 The Christian Life.

625 Phil. 3: 14. CM.

AWAKE, my soul ! stretch every nerve,
And press with vigor on ;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.

2 A cloud of witnesses around

Hold thee in full survey;
Forget the steps already trod,
And onward urge thy way.

3 Tis God's all-animating voice

That calls thee from on high ;
'Tis his own hand presents the prize
To thine aspiring eye.

4 Blest Saviour ! introduced by thee,

Have I my race begun ;
And, crowned with victory, at thy feet
I'll lay my honors down.

A!

626 Activity. CM.

Mia soldier of the cross,
A follower of the Lamb,
And shall I fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his name ?

2 Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,

While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas ?

3 Are there no foes for me to face ?
Must I not stem the flood ?

Is this vile world a friend to grace,
To help me on to God ?

4 Sure I must fight, if I would reign ;
Increase my courage, Lord !

I'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.

S1

Encouragement. 433

5 Thy saints, in all this glorious war,

Shall conquer, though they die;
They view the triumph from afar,
And seize it with their eye.

6 When that illustrious day shall rise,

And all thine armies shine
In robes of victory through the skies,
The glory shall be thine.

\}Ll Isaiah 35: 8-10. CM.

[ING, ye redeemed of the Lord,
Your great Deliverer sing ;
Pilgrims for Zion's city bound,
Be joyful in your King.

A hand divine shall lead you on
Through all the blissful road,

Till to the sacred mount you rise,
And see your smiling God.

There garlands of immortal joy

Shall bloom <>n every head ;
While sorrow, sighing, and distress

Like shadows all are fled.

4 March on in your Redeemer's strength,
Pursue his footsteps still ;
And let the prospect cheer your eye,
While laboring up the hill.

D2o Pnalm 15. I» 3f.

WHO shall ascend thy heavenly place,
Great God, and dwell before thy face?
The man who minds religion now,
And humbly walks with God below.

2 Whose hands are pure, whose heart is clean ;
Whose lips still speak the thing they mean ;
No slanders dwell upon his tongue ;
He hates to do his neighbor wrong.

28

434 The Christian Life.

3 He loves his enemies, and prays
For those who curse him to his face ;
And does to all men still the same
That he would hope or wish from them.

4 Yet when his holiest works are done,
His soul depends on grace alone :
This is the man thy face shall see,
And dwell forever, Lord, with thee.

DZ9 Tit. 2 : 10-13. !L. If.

[O let our lips and lives express
The holy gospel we profess ;
So let our works and virtues shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine.

2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
The honors of our Saviour God ;
When his salvation reigns within,
And grace subdues the power of sin.

3 Our flesh and sense must be denied,
Passion and envy, lust and pride ;
While justice, temperance, truth, and love,
Our inward piety approve.

4 Religion bears our spirits up,
While we expect that blessed hope,
The bright appearance of the Lord, —
And faith stands leaning on his word.

DuU Bent. 34:1. I^JK.

AS when the weary traveller gains
The height of some o'erlooking hill,
His heart revives, if, o'er the plains,
He eyes his home, though distant still.

2 So when the Christian pilgrim views,
By faith, his mansion in the skies ;
The sight his fainting strength renews,
And wings his speed to reach the prize.

Graces and Virtues. 435

3 Tis there, he says, I am to dwell
With Jesus in the realms of day ;
Then I shall bid my cares farewell,
And he will wipe my tears away.

Psalm 1. L,. JK.

631

HAPPY the man whose cautious feet
Shun the broad way that sinners go ;
Who hates the place where atheists meet,
And fears to talk as scoffers do.

2 He loves t' employ the morning light

Among the statutes of the Lord,
And spends the wakeful hours of night,
With pleasure pondering o'er his word.

3 He, like a plant by gentle streams,

Shall flourish in immortal green;
And heaven will Bhine, with kindest beani3,
On every work his hands begin.

DOZ Consecration. 7s.

JESUS, take me for thine own ;
To thy will my spirit frame ;
Thou shall reign, and thou alone,

Over all I have and am.

2 Making thus the Lord my ehoice,

I have nothing more to choose,
But to listen to thy voice,
And my will in thine to lose.

3 Then, whatever may betide,

I shall sale and happy be;

Still content and satisfied ; —

Having all in haying thee.

633

w

Psalm 15. 7s.

HO, O Lord, when life is o'er,
Shall to heaven's blest mansions soar?

436 The Christian Life.

Who, an ever-welcome guest,
In thy holy place shall rest ?

2 He whose heart thy love has warmed ;
He whose will to thine conformed,
Bids his life unsullied run ;

He whose words and thoughts are one ;

3 He who shuns the sinner's road,
Loving those who love their God ;
Who, with hope and faith unfeigned,
Treads the path by thee ordained ; —

4 He who trusts in Christ alone,
Not in aught himself hath done ; —
He, great God, shall be thy care,
And thy choicest blessings share.

UO^t Consecration.— liiilte 10: 42. 7».

JESUS, all-atoning Lamb,
Thine, and only thine I am :
Take my body, spirit, soul ;
Only thou possess the whole.

2 Thou my one thing needful be ;
Let me ever cleave to thee ;
Let me choose the better part ;
Let me give thee all my heart.

3 Whom have I on earth below ?
Thee, and only thee I know :
Whom have I in heaven but thee?
Thou art all in all to me.

JbuO Simplicity. 7s.

JESUS, cast a look on me !
Give me true simplicity ;
Make me poor, and keep me low,
Seeking only thee to know.

2 All that feeds my busy pride,
Cast it evermore aside :

Steadfastness, Cross-bearing. 437

Bid my will to thine submit ;
Lay me humbly at thy feet !

3 Make me like a little child,
Simple, teachable, and mild ;
Seeing only in thy light ;
Walking only in thy might !

4 Leaning on thy loving breast,
"Where a weary soul may rest ;
Feeling well the peace of God
Flowing from thy precious blood !

Dob " Pressing towards the Mark." C. 2W.

THE bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er Btoopa to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam.

2 But high Bhe shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,

Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.

3 So grant me, Lord, from every snare
( )f sinful passion fi

Aloft through faith's Berener air,

To hold my 0OUr8€ to th<

4 No sin to cloud, no lure to stay
My soul, a> home she spring

Thy Bunshine <>n her joyful way,
Thy freedom in her wings.

Do/ Lake 9* as. C.

MUST Jesus hear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No, there's a cross for every one,

And there's a cross for me.

This consecrated cross I'll bear,
Till death shall set me free,

438 The Christian Life.

And then go home my crown to wear,
For there's a crown for me.

3 Upon the crystal pavement, down

At Jesus' pierced feet,
Joyful I'll cast my golden crown,
And his dear name repeat.

4 And palms shall wave, and harps shall ring,

Beneath heaven's arches high ;
The Lord that lives, the ransomed sing,
That lives no more to die.

5 Oh, precious cross! oh, glorious crown!

Oh, resurrection day!
Ye angels, from the stars come dowTn,
And bear my soul away.

DUO Faith. CM.

FAITH adds new charms to earthly bliss,
And saves me from its snares;
Its aid, in every duty, brings,
And softens all my cares.

2 The wounded conscience knowTs its power

The healing balm to give ;
That balm the saddest heart can cheer,
And make the dying live.

3 Wide it unveils celestial wrorlds,

Where deathless pleasures reign;
And bids me seek my portion there,
Nor bids me seek in vain.

4 It shows the precious promise sealed

With the Redeemer's blood ;
And helps my feeble hope to rest
Upon a faithful God.

5 There, there unshaken would I rest,

Till this frail body dies:
And then, on faith's triumphant wings,
To endless glory rise.

Faith. 40Q

DoSJ Faith. t. ]*f.

FAITH is a living power from heaven,
That grasps the promise God hath given ;
A trust that cannot be o'erthrown,
Fixed heartily on God alone.

2 Faith finds in Christ whate'er we need
To save, or- strengthen us indeed;
Receives the grace he sendeth down,
And makes us share his cross and crown.

3 Faith feels the Spirit's kindling breath,
In love and hope that conquer death ;
Faith worketh hourly joy in God,
And trusts and blesses e'en his rod.

4 Faith in the conscience worketh peace,
And bids the mourner's weeping cease;
By faith the children's place we claim,
And give all honor to One Name.

640 Faith.— Heb. 11: 8. Em M.

THIS by the faith of joys to come,

JL We walk through deserts dark as night;
Till we arrive at heaven, our home,
Faith is our guide, and faith our light.

2 The want of sight she well supplies;

She makes the pearly gates appear;
Far into distant worlds she pries,
And brings eternal glories near.

3 Cheerful we tread the desert through,

While faith inspires a heavenly ray;

Though lions roar, and tempests blow,

And rocks and dangers fill the way.

041 Self-Sacrifice in the Daily Life. I,. M.

"TVTOT by the martyrs' death alone, [won;
-L ^ The saints in heaven their crowns have

440 The Christian Life.

There is a triumph robe on high,
For bloodless fields of victory.

2 What though they were not called to feel
The cross, the flame,, the torturing wheel?
Yet daily to the world they died,
And sinful passions crucified.

3 What though nor chains, nor scourges sore,
Nor bloody beasts their members tore?
Enough if faith and love arise

To Christ, a daily sacrifice.

4 Lord, grant us so to thee to turn,
That we to die through life may learn ;
And when our earthly toils are o'er,
Rejoice with thee for evermore.

U^tZ Meeliiiess.— Matt. 5 : 5. L.. M.

HAPPY the meek, whose gentle breast,
Clear as the summer's evening ray,
Calm as the regions of the blest,
Enjoys on earth celestial day.

2 His heart no broken friendships sting,

No storms his peaceful tent invade;
He rests beneath th' Almighty's wing,
Hostile to none, of none afraid.

3 Spirit of grace, all meek and mild !

Inspire our breasts, our souls possess :
Repel each passion rude and wild,
And bless us as we aim to bless.

u4o Jesus All in All. S.M.

THOU very present aid
In suffering and distress;
The mind which still on thee is stayed,
Is kept in perfect peace.

2 The soul by faith reclined
On the Redeemer's breast,

Christian Conflict. 44 1

'Mid raging storms, exults to find
An everlasting rest.

3 Sorrow and fear are gone
Whene'er thy face appears ;

It stills the sighing orphan's moan,
And dries the widow's tears.

4 It hallows every cross ;
It sweetly comforts me ;

Makes me forget my every los3,
And find my all in thee.

5 Jesus, to whom I fly,
Doth all my wishes fill ;

What though created streams are dry?
I have the fountain still.

b44 Rev. 21 : 3, 4. S. Jl.

THE people of the Lord
Are on their way to heaven ;
There they obtain their great reward;
The prize will there be given.

2 'Tis conflict here below;

'Tis triumph there, and peace:
On earth we wrestle with the foe;
In heaven our conflicts cease.

3 'Tis gloom and darkness here;

'Tis light and joy above;
There all is pure, and all is clear;
There all is peace and love.

4 There rest shall follow toil,

And ease succeed to care :
The victors there divide the spoil :
They sing and triumph there.

5 Then let us joyful sing;

The conflict is not long:
We hope in heaven to praise our King
In one eternal song.

442 The Christian Life.

b4b Thanks for all Saints. S.M.

FOR all thy saints, O God,
Who strove in Christ to live,
Who followed him, obeyed, adored,
Our grateful hymn receive.

2 For all thy saints, O God,

Accept our thankful cry,
Who counted Christ their great reward
And yearned for him to die.

3 They all, in life and death,

With him, their Lord, in view,
Learned from thy Holy Spirit's breath
To suffer and to do.

4 For this thy name we bless,

And humbly pray that we
May follow them in holiness,
And live and die in thee.

U4b Prayer for Submission. C. M.

ASK not now for gold to gild

i

An aching, weary frame ;
The yearning of the mind is stilled, —
I ask not now for fame.

2 But, bowed in lowliness of mind,

I make my wishes known;
I only ask a will resigned,
O Father, to thine own.

3 In vain I task my aching brain,

The sage's thoughts to scan ;
I only feel how weak I am,
How poor and blind is man.

4 And now my spirit sighs for home,

And longs for light to see,
And, like a weary child, would come,
O Father! unto thee.

Graces and Virtues,

443

)4 / Prayer for Parity. C. M.

OLORD, our carnal mind control,
And make us pure within;
Purge more and more our inmost soul
From wilful thoughts of sin.

2 Let not the world with spot or soil
Our secret heart defile;
Nor Satan round our spirit coil
His chain of fraud and guile.

r 3 Be ours the blessed lot of those
Who every evil flee;
Whose holy converse clearly shows
Communion full with thee.

648 Ileb. 11: IS. C.3f.

GLORY to God! whose witness-train — ■
Those heroes bold in faith —
Could smile on poverty and pain,
And triumph e'en in death.

2 Oh, may that faith our heart- sustain,

Wherein they fearless stood,
When, in the power of cruel men

They poured their willing blood.

3 God, whom we serve, our God can save,

Can damp the scorching flame,

Can build an ark, can smooth a wave,
For BUch as love his name.

4 Lord! if thine arm support us still

With its eternal strength,
We shall o'ercome the mightiest ill,
And conquerors prove at length.

The Pilgrimage. CMC.

UR country is Immanuel's ground;
We seek that promised soil ;

O'

444 The Christian Life.

The songs of Zion cheer our hearts,
While strangers here we toil.

2 Oft do our eyes with joy o'erflow,

And oft are bathed in tears ;
Yet naught but heaven our hopes can raise,
And naught but sin our fears.

3 The flowTers that spring along the road

We scarcely stoop to pluck ;
We walk o'er beds of shining ore,
Nor waste one wishful look.

650 Love.-l Cor. 13: 1. I«. M.

HAD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,
And nobler speech than angels use,
If love be absent, I am found
Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.

2 Were I inspired to preach and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell,
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still I am nothing without love.

3 Should I distribute all my store

To feed the hungry, clothe the poor ;
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name :

4 If love to God, and love to men
Be absent, all my hopes are vain ;
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The work of love can e'er fulfil.

£K4 Watchfulness and Prayer.

DOl Psalm 141. !L.3!f.

MY God, accept my early vows,
Like morning incense in thy house ;
And let my nightly worship rise
Sweet as the evening sacrifice.

2 Watch o'er my lips, and guard them, Lord,
From every rash and heedless word ;

Christian Communion. 4.45

Nor let my feet incline to tread
The guilty path where sinners lead.

5 Oh, may the righteous, when I stray,
Smite and reprove my wandering way!
Their gentle words, like ointment shed,
Shall never bruise, but cheer my head.

When I behold them pressed with grief,
I'll cry to heaven for their relief;
And by my warm petitions prove
How much I prize their faithful love.

652 Social Worship. L.M.

MAY He by whoso kind care we meet
Send his good Spirit from above,
Make our communications BWeet,

And cause our hearts to burn with love.

2 Forgotten be each worldly theme,

When Christian- see each other thus;
We only wish to speak <>!' him

Who lived and died and reigns for us.

3 We'll talk of all he did ami said,

And Buffered for us here below;
The path he marked for us t<> tread,

And what he's doing tor us now.

4 Thus, as the moments pass away,

We'll love and wonder ami adore,
And hasten on the Lrl<>ri<>n< day.

When we shall meet to part no more.

DOO Epb. 4: SO-32. K.K.

THE Spirit, like a peaceful Dove,
Flies from the realms of noise and strife:
Why should we vex and grieve his love
Who seals our Bouls to heavenly life !

2 Tender and kind be all our thoughts ;
Through all our lives let mercy run :

446 The Christian Life.

So God forgives our numerous faults,
For the dear sake of Christ his Son.

B?

654 Love.-l Cor. 13 : 13. C. M.

APPY the heart where graces reign,
Where love inspires the breast ;
Love is the brightest of the train,
And strengthens all the rest.

2 Knowledge — alas ! 'tis all in vain,

And all in vain our fear;
Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,
If love be absent there.

3 This is the grace that lives and sings,

When faith and hope shall cease ;
'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings,
In the sweet realms of bliss.

4 Before we quite forsake our clay,

Or leave this dark abode,
The wings of love bear us away,
To see our smiling God.

655 Epla. 3: 15. CM

LET saints below in concert sing
With those to glory gone ;
For all the servants of our King
In earth and heaven are one.

2 One family — we dwell in him, —

One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death.

3 One army of the living God,

To his command we bow ;
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.

4 E'en now to their eternal home

Some happy spirits fly;

One Church,

447

And we are to the margin come,
And soon expect to die.

5 E'en now, by faith, we join our hands

With those that went before,
And greet the ransomed blessed bands
Upon th' eternal shore.

6 Lord Jesus ! be our constant guide ;

And, when the word is given,
Bid death's cold flood its waves divide,
And land us safe in heaven.

OCO Blessedness of the Communion of
OOO Sainis. CM.

HAPPY the souls to Jesus joined,
And saved by grace alone ;
Walking in all his ways, they find
Their heaven on earth begun.

2 The church triumphant in thy love, —

Their mighty joys we know :
They siug the Lamb in hymns above,
And we in hymns below.

3 Thee, in thy glorious realm, they praise,

And bow before thy throne:
We in the kingdom of thy grace; —
The kingdoms are but one.

4 The holy to the holiest leads ;

From thence our spirits rise;
And he that in thy statutes treads
Shall meet thee in the skies.

00/ Fellowship.— Eph. 4: 5. 7s.

FATHER, hear our humble claim;
We are met in thy great name;
In the midst do thou appear,
Manifest thy presence here.

2 Lord, our fellowship increase;
Knit us in the bond of peace ;

448 The Christian Life.

Join our hearts, O Father! join
Each to each, and all to thine.

3 Build us in one spirit up,
Called in one high calling's hope,
One the spirit, one the aim,

One the pure baptismal flame; —

4 One the faith, and one the Lord,
Whom by heaven and earth adored,
We our God and Father call;

O'er all, through all, with us all.

bOO Fellowship. 7».

JESUS, Lord, we look to thee;
Let us in thy name agree;
Show thyself the Prince of peace;
Bid our jars forever cease.

2 By thy reconciling love,
Every stumbling-block remove:
Each to each unite, endear,
Come and spread thy banner here.

3 Make us of one heart and mind, —
Courteous, pitiful, and kind;
Lowly, meek, in thought and word, —
Altogether like our Lord.

4 Let us for each other care;
Each the other's burden bear;
To thy church the pattern give;
Show how true believers live.

5 Free from anger and from pride,
Let us thus in God abide:

All the depths of love express, —
All the heights of holiness.

6 Let us, then, with joy remove
To the family above ;

On the wings of angels fly ;
Show how true believers die.

Parting Hymn. 440

DOy Parting Hymn. 7s.

FOR a season called to part,
Let us now ourselves commend
To the gracious eye and heart
Of our ever-present Friend.

2 Jesus, hear our humble prayer :

Tender Shepherd of thy sheep,
Let thy mercy and thy care
All our souls in safety keep.

3 In thy strength may Ave be strong;

Sweeten every cross and pain ;
Spare us, that we may, ere long,
Meet and worship thee again.

Doxology.

SING we to our God above
Praise eternal as his love;
Praise him, all ye heavenly host, —
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

POA Blessings of Christian I'nity.—

DOU Psalm 1:1:1. S. WL

BLEST are the sons of peace,
Whose hearts and hopes are one;
Whose kind designs to serve and please
Through all their actions run.

2 Blest is the pious house

Where zeal and friendship meet:
Their songs of praise, their mingled vows
Make their communion sweet.

3 From those celestial springs

Such streams of pleasure flow,
As no increase of riches brings,
Nor honors can bestow.

4 Thus on the heavenly hills

The saints are blest above,
Where joy like morning dew distils,
And all the air is love!
29

450 The Chrhtiaji Life.

B1

001 Christian Fellowship. S. M.

>LEST be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

2 Before our Father's throne
We pour our ardent prayers ;

Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

3 We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;

And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

4 When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain ;

But wTe shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

5 This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way ;

While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.

6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin, we shall be free,

And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.

662

liiike 4: 18. S. II.

SAVIOUR ! what gracious words
Are ever, ever thine!
Thy voice is music to the soul,
And life and peace divine.

2 Good, everlasting good —
Glad tidings full of joy,
Flow from thy lips, the lips of truth,
And flow without alloy.

Kindness to the Distressed, 45 1

3 The broken heart, the poor,

The bruised, the deaf, the blind,
The dumb, the dead, the captive wretch,
In thee compassion find.

4 Lord Jesus ! speed the day, —

The promised day of grace, —
To all the poor, the dumb, the deaf,
The dead of Adam's race.

UUO Kindness to the Afflicted. C. M.

BRIGHT Source of everlasting love!
To thee our souls we raise;
And to thy sovereign bounty rear
A monument of praise.

2 Thy mercy gilds the paths of life

With every cheering ray ;
Kindly restrains the rising tear,
Or wipes that tear away.

3 What shall we render, bounteous Lord!

For all the grace we see?
Alas! the goodness we can yield
Extendeth not to thee.

4 To tents of woe, to beds of pain,

We cheerfully repair;
And, with the gifts thy hand bestows,
Relieve the mourners there.

5 Thus passing through the vale of tears,

Our useful light shall shine;
And others learn to glorify
Our Father's name divine.

664 1 John 4 : 21. C. M.

HOW sweet, how heavenly is the sight,
When those who love the Lord
In one another's peace delight,
And so fulfil his word !

452 The Christian Life.

2 When each can feel his brother's sigh,

And with him bear a part !
When sorrow flows from eye to eye,
And joy from heart to heart!

3 When free from envy, scorn, and pride,

Our wishes all above,
Each can his brother's failings hide,
And show a brother's love !

4 Let love, in one delightful stream,

Through every bosom flow,
And union sweet, and dear esteem,
In every action glow7.

5 Love is the golden chain that binds

The happy souls above ;
And he's an heir of heaven who finds
His bosom glow with love.

£ O. £ " For ye liave the Poor always

ODD witiiyou." CM.

LORD, lead the way the Saviour went,
By lane and cell obscure,
And let our treasures still be spent,
Like his, upon the poor.

2 Like him, through scenes of deep distress,

Who bore the world's sad weight,
We, in their gloomy loneliness,
Would seek the desolate.

3 For thou hast placed us side by side

In this wide world of ill ;
And that thy followers may be tried,
The poor are with us still.

4 Small are the offerings we can make;

Yet thou hast taught us, Lord,
If given for the Saviour's sake,
They lose not their reward.

Christ-likeness.

453

bub " Blessed are tlie 3Jercifnl." €. M.

BLEST is the man whose softening heart
Feels all another's pain ;
To whom the supplicating eye
Was never raised in vain; —

2 "Whose breast expands with generous warmth,

A stranger's woe to feel ;
And bleeds in pity o'er the wound
He wants the power to heal.

3 He spreads his kind, supporting arms

To every child of grief;
His secret bounty largely Hows,
And brings unasked relief

4 To gentle office^ of 1"

His feet arc never slow;
He views, through mercy's melting eye,
A brother in a

5 He hears the Saviour's cheering word,

" My peace to him 1 gh
And when he kneels before the throne,
His trembling soul shall live.

DD/ Likeness to <hrist. CM.

LORD, as to thy dear cross we flee,
And pray to he forgiven,

Oh, let thy life our pattern be,
And form our souls for heaven.

2 Help us, through good report and ill,

Our daily cross to bear;

Like thee, to do our Father's will,
Our brother's griefs to share.

3 Let grace our selfishness expel,

Our earthliness refine;

And kindness in our bosoms dwell
As free and true as thine.

454 The Christian Life.

4 Kept peaceful in the midst of strife,
Forgiving and forgiven,
Oh, may we lead the pilgrim's life,
And follow thee to heaven !

UDO IiUlie 10: 29-37. C. M.

FATHEK of mercies ! send thy grace,
All powerful, from above,
To form in our obedient souls
The image of thy love.

2 Oh, may our sympathizing breasts

The generous pleasure know,
Kindly to share in others' joy,
And weep for others' woe.

3 When the most helpless sons of grief,

In low distress are laid,
Soft be our hearts their pains to feel,
And swift our hands to aid.

4 So Jesus looked on dying man,

When throned above the skies ;
And mid th' embraces of his God,
He felt compassion rise.

5 On wings of love the Saviour flew,

To raise us from the ground,
And shed the richest of his blood,
A balm for every wound.

bby 1 Peter 2: 21-23. C. M.

WHAT grace, O Lord, and beauty
Around thy steps below ; [shone
What patient love was seen in all
Thy life and death of woe.

2 For, ever on thy burdened heart
A weight of sorrow hung ;
Yet no ungentle, murmuring word
Escaped thy silent tongue.

Charity and Kindness. 455

3 Thy foes might hate, despise, revile ;

Thy friends unfaithful prove ;
Unwearied in forgiveness still,
Thy heart could only love.

4 Oh, give us hearts to love like thee !

Like thee, O Lord, to grieve

Far more for others' sins than all

The wrongs that we receive.

5 One with thyself, may every eye,

In us, thy brethren see
The gentleness and grace that spring
From union, Lord I with thee.

D /U Charitableness.— Gal. 6 : 1. C. M.

THINK gently of the erring one!
And let us not forget,
However darkly stained by sin,
He is our brother vet.

2 Heir of the same inheritance,

Child of the self-same God;
He hath but stumbled in the path
We have in weakness trod.

3 Forget not thou hast often sinned,

And sinful yet raiwt be:
Deal gently with the erring one,
As God hath dealt with thee.

671 John 13: 1. CM.

LORD, thou on earth didst love thine
Didst love them to the end; [own;
Oh, still from thy celestial throne
Let gifts of love descend.

2 The love the Father bears to thee,
His own eternal Son,
Fill all thy saints, till all shall be
In pure affection one.

456 The Christian Life.

3 As thou for us didst stoop so low,

Warmed by love's holy flame,
So let our deeds of kindness flow
To all that bear thy name.

4 One blessed fellowship of love,

Thy living church should stand,
Till, faultless, she at last above
Shall shine at thy right hand.

U 7 2 Matt. 25 : 40. C. M •

JESUS, our Lord, how rich thy grace !
Thy bounties how complete !
How shall we count the matchless sum !
How pay the mighty debt !

2 High on a throne of radiant light

Dost thou exalted shine ;
What can our poverty bestow,
When all the worlds are thine?

3 But thou hast brethren here below,

The partners of thy grace ;
And wilt confess their humble names,
Before thy Father's face.

4 In them thou mayst be clothed and fed,

And visited and cheered ;
And in their accents of distress,
Our Saviour's voice is heard.

D/O '"Perfect us in !Love." C. 3f.

TRY us, O God, and search the ground
Of every sinful heart ;
Whate'er of sin in us is found,
Oh, bid it ail depart !

2 Help us to help each other, Lord,

Each other's cross to bear ;

Let each his friendly aid afford,

And feel his brother's care.

Prayer. 457

3 Help us to build each other up,

Our heart and life improve ;
Increase our faith, confirm our hope,
And perfect us in love.

4 Up into thee, our living Head,

Let us in all things grow,
Till thou hast made us free indeed,
And spotless here below.

0 I He " Bear Refuge of my Weary Soul." C. M.

DEAR Refuge of my weary soul,
On thee, when sorrows rise, —
On thee when waves of trouble roll,
My fainting hope relies.

2 To thee I tell each rising grief,

For thou alone canst heal ;
Thy word can bring a sweet relief
For every pain 1 feel,

3 Hast thou not bid me seek thy face?

And shall I seek in vain ?
And can the car of sovereign grace
Be deaf when I complain ?

4 No: Still the ear of sovereign grace

Attends the mourner's prayer J
Oh, may I ever find acc<

To breathe my sorrows there!

5 Thy mercy-seat is open still ;

Here let my soul retreat,
With humble hope attend thy will,
And wait beneath thy feet.

675 Psalm 85 : 2. CM.

>RAYER is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed;
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.

p1

458 The Christian Life.

2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh,

The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye,
When none but God is near.

3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech

That infant lips can try ;
Prayer the sublimest strains that reach
The Majesty on high.

4 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice,

Returning from his ways ;
While angels in their songs rejoice,
And cry, " Behold he prays !"

5 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,

The Christian's native air,
His watchword at the gates of death ;
He enters heaven with prayer.

6 O thou by whom we come to God,

The Life, the Truth, the Way!
The path of prayer thyself hast trod ;
Lord ! teach us how to pray.

D/U Matt. 6. Luke 11. C. M.

OUR Father, God, who art in heaven,
All hallowed be thy name !
Thy kingdom come ; thy will be done,
In earth and heaven the same !

2 Give us this day our daily bread ;

And, as we those forgive
Who sin against us, so may we
Forgiving grace receive.

3 Into temptation lead us not ;

From evil set us free ;
And thine the kingdom, thine the power
And glory ever be.

Prayer. 459

0 / / 1 Sam. 1 : 12, 13. C. M.

PRAYEK is the breath of God in man,
Returning whence it came;
Love is the sacr%d fire within,
And prayer the rising flame.

2 It gives the burdened spirit ease,

And soothes the troubled breast ;
Yields comfort to the mourning soul,
And to the weary rest.

3 When God inclines the heart to pray,

He hath an ear to hear;
To him there's music in a sigh,
And beauty in a tear.

4 The humble suppliant cannot fail

To have his want- supplied,
Since lie for sinners intercedes
Who once for sinners died.

D/O The Safe Retreat. CM.

DEAB Father, to thy mercy-seat
My soul lor shelter flies ;
'Tis here I find B - ivat

When storms and tempests rise.

2 My cheerful hope can never die,

If thou, my God, art near ;
Thy grace can raise my comforts high,
And banish every fear.

3 My great Protector and my Lord,

Thy constant aid impart;
Oh, let thy kind, thy gracious word
Sustain my trembling heart!

4 Oh, never let my soul remove

From this divine retreat!
Still let me trust thy power and love,
And dwell beneath thy feet.

460 The Christian Life.

N(

U / v7 Blessedness of Prayer. C. M. 1

T), never shall my heart despond,
Long as my lips can pray ;
My latest breath, witfc effort fond,
Shall pass in prayer away.

2 There is a heavenly mercy-seat

To calm the sinner's fears ;

There is a Saviour at whose feet

The mourner dries his tears.

3 When friends depart, and hopes are riven,

And gathering storms I see,
My soul is but the sooner driven,
Eternal Rock ! to thee.

4 Oh for a voice of sweeter sound,

For every wTind to bear,
To teach the listening world around
The blessedness of prayer !

DOU Secret Prayer. CM.

SWEET is the prayer whose holy stream
In earnest pleading flows ;
Devotion dwells upon the theme,
And warm and warmer glows.

2 Faith grasps the blessing she desires,

Hope points the upward gaze,
And love, untrembling love inspires
The eloquence of praise.

3 But sweeter far the still small voice,

Heard by no human ear,
When God hath made the heart rejoice,
And dried the bitter tear.

4 Nor accents flow, nor words ascend ;

All utterance faileth there ;
But listening spirits comprehend,
And God accepts the prayer.

Prayer. 46 1

031 "Teach us to pray." CM.

LORD, teach us how to pray aright,
With reverence and with fear :
Though dust and ashes in thy sight,
We may, we must draw near.

2 God of all grace, we come to thee,

With broken, contrite hearts ;
Give what thine eye delights to see,—
Truth in the inward parts.

3 Give deep humility ; the sense

Of godly sorrow give ;
A strong desiring confidence
To see thy face and live.

4 Patience to watch and wait and weep,

Though mercy long delay;
Courage, our fainting souls to keep,
And trust thee, though thou slay.

5 Give these, and then thy will be done;

Thus strengthened with all might,
We, by thy Spirit and thy Son,
Shall pray, and pray aright.

682 Luko 21 : 17. I* «•

THOU, Saviour, from thy throne on high,
Enrobed in light and girt with power,
Dost note the thought, the prayer, the sigh,
Of hearts that love the tranquil hour.

2 Oft thou thyself didst Bteal away

At eventide, from labor done,
In some still peaceful shade to pray
Till morning watches were begun.

3 Thou hast not, dearest Lord, forgot

The wrestlings on Judea's hills;
And still thou lov'st the quiet spot
Where praise the lowly spirit fills.

462 The Christian Life.

4 Now to our souls, withdrawn awhile

From earth's rude noise, thy face reveal ;
And as we worship, kindly smile,
And for thine own our spirits seal.

5 To thee we bring each grief and care,

To thee we fly while tempests lower ;
Thou wilt the weary burdens bear

Of hearts that love the tranquil hour.

DOO Ttoe Power of Prayer. I*. M.

WHAT various hindrances we meet
In coming to a mercy-seat !
Yet who that knows the wqrth of prayer
But wishes to be often there ?

2 Prayer makes the darkened clouds withdraw;
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw,
Gives exercise to faith and love,

Brings every blessing from above.

3 Restraining prayer, we cease to fight ;
Prayer makes the Christian's armor bright ;
And Satan trembles when he sees

The weakest saint upon his knees.

4 Have you no words ? ah ! think again ;
Words flow apace when you complain,
And fill a fellow-creature's ear

With the sad tale of all your care.

5 Were half the breath thus vainly spent,
To heaven in supplication sent,

Our cheerful song would oftener be,

" Hear wThat the Lord hath done for me !"

Do4 Matt. 21: 22. li.H.

AND dost thou say, " Ask what thou wilt" ?
Lord, I would seize the golden hour :
I pray to be released from guilt,

And freed from sin and Satan's power.

Prayer. 463

2 More of thy presence, Lord, impart ;

More of thine image let me bear ;
Erect thy throne within my heart,
And reign without a rival there.

3 Give me to read my pardon sealed,

And from thy joy to draw my strength :
Oh, be thy boundless love revealed

In all its height and breadth and length.

4 Grant these requests, — I ask no more,

But to thy care the rest resign :
Sick, or in health, or rich, or poor,
All shall be well, if thou art mine.

UOO Ileb. 4:16. Ex. 25:22. T,. M.

FROM every stormy wind that blows,
From every swelling tide of woes,
There is a calm, a sure retreat ;
Tis found beneath the mercy-seat.

2 There is a place where Jesus sheds
The oil of gladness on our heads, —
A place than all besides more >weet ;
It is the blood-bought mercy-seat.

3 There is a scene where spirits blend,
Where friend holds fellowship with friend ;
Though sundered far, by faith they meet
Around one common mercy-seat !

4 There, there on eagle wings we soar,
And sense and sin molest no more,

And heaven comes down our souls to greet,
And glory crowns the mercy-seat.

OoO Hour of Prayer. Ii. M.

BLEST hour when mortal man retires
To hold communion with his God,
To send to heaven his warm desires,
And listen to the sacred word.

464 The Christian Life.

2 Blest hour when God himself draws nigh,

Well pleased his people's voice to hear,
To hush the penitential sigh,

And wipe away the mourner's tear.

3 Blest hour, for where the Lord resorts,

Foretastes of future bliss are given,
And mortals find his earthly courts
The house of God, the gate of heaven.

DO/ The Mercy-Seat. Iu M,

APPROACH, my soul, the mercy-seat,
Where Jesus sits to answer prayer ;
Thus humbly fall before his feet';
For none have ever perished there.

2 Thy promise is my only plea ;

With this I humbly venture nigh ;
Thou callest burdened souls to thee,
And surely such, O Lord, am I.

3 Bowed down beneath a load of sin,

By Satan tempted, sorely pressed,
By war without and fear within,
I come to thee, my Lord, for rest.

4 Be thou my shield and hiding-place,

That, safely sheltered near thy side,
I may the fierce accuser face,

And tell him, Jesus, thou hast died.

DOO Matt. 11 : 28. Ii. M.

HOW sweetly flowed the gospel sound,
From lips of gentleness and grace,
When listening thousands gathered round,
And joy and gladness filled the place.

2 From heaven he came, of heaven he spoke,
To heaven he led his followers' wTay ;
Dark clouds of gloomy night he broke,
Unveiling an immortal day.

Prayer. 465

3 " Come, wanderers, to my Father's home ;
Come, all ye weary ones, and rest ;"
Yes, sacred Teacher, we will come,
Obey thee, love thee, and be blest !

OOy The Call to Prayer. S. M.

COME at the morning hour,
Come, let us kneel and pray ;
Prayer is the Christian pilgrim's staff
To walk with God all day.

2 At noon, beneath the Rock

Of Ages, rest and pray ;
Sweet is that shelter from the sun
In the weary heat of day.

3 At evening, in thy home,

Around its altar, pray ;
And finding there the house of God,
With heaven then close the day.

w

Delight in Worship. 8. M.

OW sweet to bless the Lord,
And in his praises join,
With saints his goodness to record,
And sing his power divine!

2 Thus may our joys increase,

Our love more ardent grow,
While rich supplies of Jesus' grace
Refresh our souls below.

3 But, oh, the bliss sublime,

When joy shall be complete,

In that unclouded, glorious clime

Where all thy servants meet !

4 Then shall the ransomed throng

The Saviour's love record,
And shout in everlasting song, —
" Salvation to the Lord !"

30

466 The Christian Life.

691 Call to Prayer. S. M.

COME to the house of prayer,
O thou afflicted, come ;
The God of peace shall meet thee there ;
He makes that house his home.

2 Come to the house of praise,

Ye who are happy now ;
In sweet accord your voices raise,
In kindred homage bow.

3 Ye aged, hither come!

For ye have felt his love ;
Soon shall your trembling tongues be dumb,
Your lips forget to move.

4 Ye young ! before his throne,

Come, bow ; your voices raise ;
Let not your hearts his praise disown,
Who gives the power to praise.

by L God our Strength. S. M.

"AN'S wTisdom is to seek
His strength in God alone;
And e'en an angel would be weak
Who trusted in his own.

2 Retreat beneath his wings,

And in his grace confide ;
This more exalts the King of kings
Than all your works beside.

3 In Jesus is our store ,

Grace issues from his throne ;
Whoever says, "I want no more/'
Confesses he has none.

693 Luke 18: 1. S. M.

JESUS, who knows full well
The heart of every saint,

MJ

Prayer, 467

Invites us all our griefs to tell,
To pray, and never faint.

2 He bows his gracious ear ;

We never plead in vain ;
Yet we must wait till he appear,
And pray, and pray again.

3 Jesus, the Lord, will hear

His chosen when they cry;
Yes, though he may a while forbear,
He'll help them from on high.

4 Then let us earnest be,

And never faint in prayer ;
He loves our importunity,

And makes our cause his care.

694 Hcb. 4: 16. S. M.

BEHOLD the throne of grace!
The promise calls mo near;
TKere Jesus shows a smiling face,
And waits to answer prayer.

2 That rich, atoning blood,

Which sprinkled round I see,
Provides for those who come to God
An all-prevailing plea.

3 My soul! ask what thou wilt;

Thou canst not be too bold ;
Since his own blood for thee he spilt,
What else can he withhold?

4 Thine image, Lord, bestow,

Thy presence and thy love;
I ask to serve thee here below,
And reign with thee above.

5 Teach me to live by faith ;

Conform my will to thine ;

Let me victorious be in death,

And then in glory shine.

468 The Christian Life.

695 Matt. 18 : 20. S. M.

JESUS, we look to thee,
Thy promised presence claim :
Thou in the midst of us shalt be,
Assembled in thy name.

2 Not in the name of pride

Or selfishness we meet ;
From nature's paths we turn aside,
And worldly thoughts forget.

3 We meet, the grace to take

Which thou hast freely given ;
We meet on earth for thy dear sake,
That we may meet in heaven.

4 Present we know thou art,

But, oh, thyself reveal!
Now, Lord, let every bounding heart
Thy mighty comfort feel.

5 Oh, may thy quickening voice

The death of sin remove;
And bid our inmost souls rejoice
In hope of perfect love.

09u Col. 4:2. 7s.

"EAVENLY Father, sovereign Lord,
Be thy glorious name adored !
Lord, thy mercies never fail ;
Hail, celestial goodness, hail !

2 Though unworthy, Lord, thine ear,
Deign our humble songs to hear ;
Purer praise we hope to bring,
When around thy throne we sing.

3 While on earth ordained to stay,
Guide our footsteps in thy way,
Till we come to dwell with thee,
Till we all thy glory see.

H]

Prayer. 469

4 Then, with angel-harps again,
We will wake a nobler strain ;
There, in joyful songs of praise,
Our triumphant voices raise.

Dv7 / Isaiah 56 : 7. 7s.

SOFT and holy is the place,
Where the light that beams from heaven
Shows the Saviour's smiling face,
With the joy of sin forgiven.

There, with one accord we meet,

All the words of life to hear ;
Bending low at Jesus' i

Worshipping with godly fear,

3 Let the world and all it- cares
Now retire from every breast ;
Let the tempter and his snares
Cease to hinder or molest.

DaO A els 10: SS. 7S.

STEALING from the world away,

k5 We are come to Beek thy i'aee ;
Kindly meet US, Lord, we pray,
Grant us thy reviving grace,

2 Yonder Btars that gild the Bky

Shine but with a borrowed light;

We, unless thy light be nigh,

Wander, wrapt in gloomy night.

3 Sun of righteousness! dispel

All our darkness, doubts, and fears;
May thy light within us dwell,
Till eternal day appears.

4 Warm our hearts in prayer and praise,

Lift our every thought above ;
Hear the grateful songs we raise,
Fill us with thy perfect love.

470 The Christian Life.

H<

t)yy Invocation. 78.

~OLY Lord, our hearts prepare
For the solemn work of prayer;
Grant that while we bend the knee,
All our thoughts may turn to thee.

2 While we come around thy throne,
Make thy power and glory known ;
As thy children may we call

On our Father, Lord of all.

3 Teach us, while we breathe our woes,
On thy promise to repose ;

All thy tender love to trace
In the Saviour's work of grace.

700 Eph. 6: 18. 78.

THEY who seek the throne of grace
Find that throne in every place ;
If we live a life of prayer,
God is present everywhere.

2 In our sickness and our health,
In our want, or in our wealth,
If we look to God in prayer,
God is present everywhere.

3 When our earthly comforts fail,
When the foes of life prevail,
'Tis the time for earnest prayer ;
God is present everywhere.

4 Then, my soul, in every strait,
To thy Father come and wait;
He will answer every prayer ;
God is present everywhere.

701

Matt. 7 : 7. 7s.

COME, my soul, thy suit prepare,
Jesus loves to answer prayer ;

Prayer. 471

He himself has bid thee pray,
Therefore will not say thee nay.

2 With ray burden I begin ; —
Lord, remove this load of sin ;
Let thy blood, for sinners spilt,
Set my conscience free from guilt

3 Lord ! I come to thee for rest,
Take possession of my breast ;
There thy sovereign right maintain.
And, without a rival, reign.

4 While I am a pilgrim here,
Let thy love my spirit cheer;

Be my Guide, my Guard, ray Friend,
Lead me to my journey's end

l\jL Act* 16; IX 7a.

HEAVENLY BpiritJ may each heart
Through these sadred hours be thine;
May we from the world depart,
Breathing after things divine.

2 Lead us forth with joy and peace,
To thy temple, in thy ways ;
And when this sweet day shall cease,
May its sun Lr<> down with praise.

/UvJ John 17: 9. 7a.

TBINE forever I God of love,
Hear as from thy throne above!
Thine forever may we be.
Here, and in eternity !

2 Thine forever! oh, how blest
They who find in thee their rest!
Saviour, Guardian, heavenly Friend,
Oh, defend us to the end !

3 Thine forever ! Saviour, keep
These thy frail and trembling sheep;

472 The Christian Life.

Safe alone beneath thy care,
Let us all thy goodness share.

4 Thine forever ! thou our Guide, —
All our wants by thee supplied, —
All our sins by thee forgiven, —
Lead us, Lord, from earth to heaven !

704 Matt. 6: 10; 26: 42. CM.

HOW sweet to be allowed to pray
To God, the Holy One ;
With filial love and trust to say,
" O God, thy will be done."

2 We in these sacred words can find

A cure for every ill ;
They calm and soothe the troubled mind,
And bid all care be still.

3 Oh, let that will which gave me breath,

And an immortal soul,
In joy, in grief, in life or death,
My every wish control.

4 Oh, could my heart thus ever pray,

Thus imitate thy Son !
Teach me, O God, with truth to say,
" Thy will, not mine, be done."

/UO Coming to God. CM.

I COME to thee, once more, my God,
No longer will I roam,
For I have sought the wide world through,
And never found a home.

2 Oh, bright and many are the spots

Where I have built a nest,
Yet in the brightest still I pined
For more abiding rest.

3 Thou, Lord, hast made this wondrous soul

All for thyself alone ;

Prayer. 47 3

Oh, send thy sweet, transforming grace
To make it all thine own.

706 Job 1:21. CM.

ONE prayer I have — all prayers in one,
When I am wholly thine ;
Thy will, my God, thy will be done,
And let that will be mine.

2 All-wise, almighty, and all-good,

In thee I firmly trust ;
Thy ways, unknown or understood,
Are merciful and just.

3 And though thy wisdom takes away,

Shall I arraign thy will?
No, let me bless thy name, and say,
" The Lord is gracious still."

4 A pilgrim through the earth I roam,

Of nothing long possessed ;

And all must fail when I go home,
For this is not my rest.

/(J/ Pnaliii 1SS. CM.

SPIRIT of peace, celestial Dove,
How excellent thy praise!
How rich the gift of Christian love
Thy gracious power displays!

Sweet as the dew on hill and flower,

That silently distils,
At evening's Boft and balmy hour,

On Zion's fruitful hills.

So, with mild influence from above,
Shall promised grace descend ;

Till universal peace and love
O'er all the earth extend.

S1

SECTION VII.

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

(a.) Church divinely founded. God's
Dwelling -PI ace and Peculiar
Care. Catholic and True. Christ
its Corner-Stone. Kingdom that
cannot be shaken. Churclis Pil-
grimage. Love of the Church.
Glorious Tilings spoken of her.

(b.) The Lord's Supper. Hymns of Con-
secration , of ('oven ant Love, of
Christian Fellowship and Greet-
ing.

(c.) Baptism. Offering of Children.
Pleading the Covenant Promises.

(d.) The Christ iff a Ministry. Hymns
for Ordination and Installation.
Prayers for Pastors. The Death
of Pastors* Dedication Hymns.

(e.) Spread of the Gospel. Missionary
Hymns.

"As Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for
it, that he might sanctity and cleanse it with the washing
of water by the word, that he might present it to him-
self a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or
any such thing; but that it should be holy and without
blemish."— Epii. 5: 2<3-l7.

475

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

^HQ "Behold I lay in Sion a Chief

/ UO Corner-stone." 8s «fc 7s.

CHRIST is made the sure Foundation,
Christ the Head and Corner-Stone,
Chosen of the Lord, and precious,
Binding all the Church in one;
Holy Sion's help forever,
And her confidence alone.

2 All that dedicated City,

Dearly loved of God on high,
In exultant jubilation

Pours perpetual melody;
God the One in Three adoring

In glad hymns eternally.

3 To this Temple, where we call thee,

Come, 0 Lord of Boats, to-day;
With thy wonted loving-kindness,

Hear thy servants as they pray;
And thy fullest benediction

Shed within its walls alway.

/Ijy Xow Jerusalem. 8s A 7s.

KLORIOUS city, heavenly Salem,
Vision dear of peace and love,
Who of living .-tones art builded

In the height of heaven above,
And with angel hosts encircled,

As a bride to earth dost move;

From celestial realms descending,
Bridal glory round thee shed,

Meet for Him whose love espoused thee,
To thy Lord shalt thou be led:

477

G1

478 The Church of Christ.

All thy streets and all thy bulwarks
Of pure gold are fashioned.

3 Bright thy gates of pearl are shining ;

They are open evermore;
And by virtue of his merits

Thither faithful souls do soar,
Who for Christ's dear name in this world

Pain and tribulation bore.

710 Psalm 80. I..M.

GREAT Shepherd of thine Israel,
Who didst between the cherubs dwell,
And lead the tribes, thy chosen sheep,
Safe through the desert and the deep :

2 Thy Church is in the desert now :

Shine from on high and guide us through ;
Turn us to thee, thy love restore ;
We shall be saved, and sigh no more.

3 Hast thou not planted with thy hand
A lovely vine in this our land?

Did not thy power defend it round,
And heavenly dew enrich the ground ?

4 Return, Almighty God, return !

Nor let thy bleeding vineyard mourn:
Turn us to thee, thy love restore;
We shall be saved, and sigh no more.

/ 1 1 Christ's Indwelling- Besonglit. I«. M.

COME, dearest Lord, descend and dwTell
By faith and love in every breast;
Then shall we know and taste and feel
The joys that cannot be expressed.

2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength,
Make our enlarged souls possess,
And learn the height and breadth and length
Of thine immeasurable grace.

Encouragement. 479

3 Now to the God whose power can do

More than our thoughts and wishes know,
Be everlasting honors done

By all the church, through Christ his Son!

712 Isaiah 52: 1. !L. M.

TRIUMPHANT Zion, lift thy head
From dust and darkness and the dead ;
Though humbled long, awake at length,
And gird thee with thy Saviour's strength.

2 Put all thy beauteous garments on,
And let thy various charms be known;
The world thy glories shall confess,
Decked in the robes of righteousness.

3 No more shall foes unclean invade,
And fill thy hallowed walls with dread;
No more shall hell's insulting host
Their victory and thy sorrows boast.

4 God, from on high, thy groans will hear;
His hand thy ruins shall repair;

Nor will thy watchful Monarch cease
To* guard thee in eternal peace.

/ lO "Brethren, pray for ns." Ia.M.

FATHER of mercies, bow thine ear,
Attentive to our earnest prayer;
We plead for those who plead for thee :
Successful pleaders may they be.

2 Clothe thou with energy divine

Their words, and let those words be thine;
Teach them immortal souls to gain,
Nor let them labor, Lord, in vain.

3 Let thronging multitudes around
Hear from their lips the joyful sound;
And light through distant realms be spread,
Till Zion rears her drooping head.

480 The Church of Christ.

714 Psalm 27. C. M.

THE Lord of glory is my light,
And my salvation, too ;
God is my strength, nor will I fear
What all my foes can do.

2 One privilege my heart desires,

Oh, grant me an abode
Among the churches of thy saints,
The temples of my God.

3 There shall I offer my requests,

And see thy beauty still ;
Shall hear thy messages of love,
And there inquire thy will.

4 When troubles rise, and storms appear,

There may his children hide ;
God has a strong pavilion, where
He makes my soul abide.

5 Now shall my head be lifted high

Above my foes around ;
And songs of joy and victory
Within thy temple sound.

/lb Christ the Head of the Church. C. M.

OUR Christ hath reached his heavenly
seat,
Through sorrows and through scars ;
The golden lamps are at his feet,
And in his hand the stars.

2 O Lord of life and truth and grace,

Ere nature was begun !
Make welcome to our erring race
Thy Spirit and thy Son.

3 We hail the Church, built high o'er all

The heathen's rage and scoff;
Thy Providence its fenced wall,
" The Lamb the light thereof."

God's Building. 48 J

4 Oh, may he walk among us here,
With his rebuke and love,
A brightness o'er this lower sphere,
A ray from worlds above !

7lD Psalm 132. C. M.

ARISE, O King of grace, arise !
And enter to thy rest ;
Lo ! thy church waits with longing eyes,
Thus to be owned and blest.

2 Enter with all thy glorious train,

Thy Spirit and thy word ;
All that the ark did once contain
Could no such grace afford.

3 Here, mighty God, accept our vows;

Here let thy praise be spread ;

Bless the provisions of thy house,
And fill thy poor with bread.

4 Here let the Son of David reign,

Let God's Anointed shine;
Justice and truth his court maintain,
With love and power divine.

5 Here let him hold a lasting throne,

And as his kingdom grows,

Fresh honors shall adorn his crown,
And shame contound his foes.

71 / Ye are CJmT* Iliiilriiiiff. C. H.

THE lovely form of God's own Church,
It riseth in all lands ;
On mountain sides, in wooded vales,
And by the desert sands.

2 Though sects and factions rule the world,
Peace is its heritage ;
Unchanged, though empires by it pass,
The same from age to age.

31

482 The Church of Christ.

3 The hallowed form our fathers built,

That hallowed form build we ;
Let not one stone from its own place
Removed ever be.

4 Clear voices from above sound out

Their blessing on the pile ;
The dead beneath support our hands,
And succor us the while.

5 Yea, when Ave climb the rising walls,

Is peace and comfort given ;

Because the work is not of earth,

But hath its end in heaven.

71 0 Dan. 2: 44. C. M.

OH, where are kings and empires now,
Of old that went and came ?
But, Lord, thy church is praying yet,
A thousand years the same.

2 We mark her goodly battlements,

And her foundations strong ;
We hear wTithin the solemn voice
Of her unending song.

3 For not like kingdoms of the world,

Thy holy church, O God ! [her,

Though earthquake shocks are threatening

And tempests are abroad ; —

4 Unshaken as eternal hills,

Immovable she stands, —
A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands.

/iy The Mouse of God. C. If.

WE love the venerable house
Our fathers built to God ;
In heaven are kept their grateful vows,
Their dust endears the sod.

Honorable and Glorious. 483

2 Here holy thoughts a light have shed

From many a radiant face ;
And prayers of tender hope have spread
A perfume through the place.

3 From humble tenements around

Came up the pensive train ;
And in the church a blessing found,
Which filled their homes again.

4 They live with God, their homes are dust,

But here their children pray,
And in this fleeting lifetime trust
To find the narrow way.

5 On him who by the altar stands,

Lord, let thy blessing fall !
Speak through his lips thy pure commands,
Thou Heart that Lovest all!

720 Psalm i:*7. S. M.

LOVE thy kingdom, Lord,—

1

The house of thine abode,
The Church our blest Redeemer saved
With his own precious blood.

2 I love thy Church, 0 God!

Her walls before thee stand,
Dear as the apple of thine eve,

And graven on thy hand.

3 For her my tears shall fall,

For her my prayers ascend :
To her my cares and toils he Lriven,
Till toils and cares shall end.

4 Beyond my highest joy

I prize her heavenly ways,
Her sweet communion, solemn vows,
Her hymns of love and praise.

484 The Church of Christ.

5 Jesus, thou Friend divine,

Our Saviour and our King,
Thy hand from every snare and foe
Shall great deliverance bring.

6 Sure as thy truth shall last,

To Zion shall be given
The brightest glories earth can yield,
And brighter bliss of heaven.

/ Zl The Pilgrim Church. S. M.

^AK down the ages now,

F

Much of her journey done,
The pilgrim Church pursues her way,
Until her crown be won.

2 No wider is the gate,

No broader is the wTay,
No smoother is the ancient path,
That leads to life and day.

3 No slacker grows the fight,

No feebler is the foe,
Nor less the need of armor tried,
Of shield and spear and bow.

4 Still faithful to our God,

And to our Captain true,
We follow where he leads the way,
The kingdom in our view.

i LL Safety of the Church. S. M.

HOW honored is the place
Where we adoring stand !
Zion, the glory of the earth,
And beauty of the land.

2 Bulwarks of grace defend
The city where we dwell ;
While walls of strong salvation made
Defy th' assaults of hell.

Honorable and Glorious. 485

3 Here taste unmingled joys,

And live in perfect peace ;
You that have known Jehovah's name,
And ventured on his grace.

4 Trust in the Lord, ye saints,

And banish all your fears ;
Strength in the Lord Jehovah dwells,
Eternal as his years.

7Q Q "Zion, City of our God."—

/ L\J Psalm 87. 8s«fc7s.

GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God ;
He whose wrord can ne'er be broken
Chose thee for his own abode.

2 Lord, thy Church is still thy dwelling,

Still is precious in thy sight ;
Judah's temple far excelling,
Beaming with the gospel's light.

3 On the Rock of Ages founded,

What can shake her sure repose?
With salvation's wall surrounded,
She can smile at all her foes.

4 Glorious things of thee are spoken,

Zion, city of our God ;
He whose word can ne'er be broken,
Chose thee for his own abode.

724 Cant. 2:4. 8s A 7s.

JESUS spreads his banner o'er us,
Cheers our famished souls with food ;
He the banquet spreads before us,
Of his mystic flesh and blood.

2 Precious banquet, bread of heaven,
Wine of gladness, flowing free ;
May we taste it, kindly given,
In remembrance, Lord, of thee !

486 The Church of Christ.

3 In thy trial and rejection,

In thy sufferings on the tree,
In thy glorious resurrection,
May we, Lord, remember thee.

/ZO Psalm 127. 8s * 7s.

VAINLY through night's weary hours,
Keep we watch, lest foes alarm ;
Vain our bulwarks and our towTers,
But for God's protecting arm.

2 Vain wrere all our toil and labor,

Did not God that labor bless ;
Vain, without his grace and favor,
Every talent we possess.

3 Vainer still the hope of heaven,

That on human strength relies ;
But to him shall help be given,
Who in humble faith applies.

4 Seek we, then, the Lord's Anointed ;

He shall grant us peace and rest :
Ne'er was suppliant disappointed,
Who to Christ his prayer addressed.

/ZD Communion. 8§ & 7s.

WHILE in sweet communion feeding
On this earthly bread and wine,
Saviour, may we see thee bleeding
On the cross, to make us thine.

2 Though unseen, now be thou near us,

With the still small voice of love ;
Whispering words of peace to cheer us,
Every doubt and fear remove.

3 Bring before us all the story

Of thy life and death of woe ;
And, with hopes of endless glory,
Wean our hearts from all below.

The Lord's Supper. 487

727

1 Cor. 11: 26. 7s. 61.

MANY centuries have fled
Since our Saviour broke the bread,
And this sacred feast ordained,
Ever by his Church retained :
Those his body who discern
Thus shall meet till his return.

Through the Church's long eclipse,
When, from priest or pastor's lips,
Truth divine was never heard, —
'Mid the famine of the word,
Still these symbols witness gave
To his love who died to save.

All who bear the Saviour's name
Here their common faith proclaim;
Though diverse in tongue or rite,
Here, one body to unite;
Breaking thus one mystic bread,
Members of one common Head.

Come, the blessed emblems share,
Which the Saviour's death declare;
Come, on truth immortal feed;
For his flesh is meat indeed:
Saviour! witness with the sign
That our ransomed souls are thine.

728

G'

Psalm 67. 7s. 61.

OD of mercy, God of grace !

Show the brightness of thy face:
Shine upon us, Saviour! shine,
Fill thy Church with light divine,
And thy saving health extend
To the earth's remotest end.

2 Let the people praise thee, Lord!
Pe by all that live adored:
Let the nations shout and sing,
Glory to their Saviour King;

488 The Church of Christ.

At thy feet their tribute pay
And thy holy will obey.

3 Let the people praise thee, Lord !
Earth shall then her fruits afford ;
God to man his blessing give;
Man to God devoted live ;
All below, and all above,
One in joy and light and love.

G(

I L3 Gethsemaue. 7s. 61.

10 to dark Gethsemane,
Ye that feel the tempter's power,
Your Redeemer's conflict see,

Watch with him one bitter hour:
Turn not from his griefs away,
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

2 Follow to the judgment-hall,

View the Lord of life arraigned:
Oh, the wormwood and the gall !

Oh, the pangs his soul sustained !
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss ;
Learn of him to bear the cross.

3 Calv'ry's mournful mountain climb;

There, adoring at his feet,
Mark that miracle of time,

God's own sacrifice complete!
" It is finished," hear him cry ;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.

TO A "Meet, and remember Me!"

lOKJ Luke 22: 19. CM.

IF human kindness meets return,
And owns the grateful tie ;
If tender thoughts within us burn,
To feel a friend is nigh ; —

2 Oh, shall not warmer accents tell
The gratitude we owe

The Lord's Supper. 489

To Him who died our fears to quell —
Our more than orphan's woe?

3 While yet in anguish he surveyed

Those pangs he would not flee,
What love his latest words displayed:
"Meet and remember me!"

4 Remember thee — thy death, thy shame!

Our sinful hearts to share!
O memory! leave no other name
But his recorded there.

731

Lake 22: 19. CM.

ACCORDING to thy gracious word,
In meek humility,
This will I do, my dying Lord,
I will remember thee.

Thy body, broken for my sake,
My bread from heaven shall be;

Thy testainental CUD J take,
And thus remember thee.

Gethsemane can I forget?

Or there thy conflict
Thine agony and bloody sweat,

And not remember thee?

When to the ere— I turn mine eyes,

And rest on ( alvary,
O Lamb of God, my sacrifice!

I must remember thee; —

Remember thee, and all thy pains,

And all thy love to me;
Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains,

Will I remember thee.

And when these failing lips grow dumb,
And mind and memory flee,

When thou shalt in thy kingdom come,
Then, Lord, remember me!

490 The Church of Christ.

7u2 Jer. 31: 3. CM.

HOW sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors;
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores !

2 While all our hearts, and all our songs,

Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cries, with thankful tongues,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

3 "Why was I made to hear thy voice,

And enter while there's room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

4 'Twas the same love that spread the feast

That sweetly drew us in ;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

iOO IiOrd's Table. CM.

LORD ! at thy table I behold
The wonders of thy grace ;
But most of all admire that I
Should find a welcome place.

2 What strange, surprising grace is this,

That such a soul has room !
My Saviour takes me by the hand,
My Jesus bids me come.

3 Ye saints below and hosts of heaven,

Join all your praising powers ;
No theme is like redeeming love,
No Saviour is like ours.

4 Had I ten thousand hearts, dear Lord,

I'd give them all to thee ;
Had I ten thousand tongues, they all
Should join the harmony.

The Lord's Table. 401

HQ/t "A Good Profession before many

/ OHt \Mtn esses. "— 1 Tim. 6 : 12. C. M.

WITNESS, ye men and angels, now
Before the Lord we speak ;
To him we make our solemn vow, —
A vow we dare not break : —

2 That, long as life itself shall last,

Ourselves to Christ we yield ;
Nor from his cause will we depart,
Or ever quit the field.

3 We trust not in our native strength,

But on his grace rely,
That with returning wants the Lord
Will all our need supply.

4 Oh, guide our doubtful feet aright,

And keep ua in thy way- ;
And while we turn our vows to prayers,
Turn thou our prayers to praise!

/oO Preparation for Communion. C. Jf •

PREPARE U8, L id, to view thy cross,
Who all our griefs hasl borne :

To look on thee whom we have pierced,
To look on thee, and mourn.

2 While thus we mourn, we would rejoice,
And, as thy cross we see,
Let each exclaim in faith and hope, —
11 The Saviour died for me I"

/OO Communion. CM*

GOD, unseen yet ever near,
Thy presence may we feel ;
And, thus inspired with holy fear,
Before thine altar kneel!

0

2 We come, obedient to thy word,
To feast on heavenly food;
Our meat, the body of the Lord,
Our drink, his precious blood.

492 The Church of Christ,

3 Thus may we all thy words obey,
For we, O God, are thine ;
And go rejoicing on our way,
Renewed with strength divine.

10 I Isaiah 49 : 15. C. 91.

A MOTHER may forgetful be,
For human love is frail ;
But thy Creator's love to thee,
O Zion, cannot fail.

2 No, thy dear name engraven stands,

In characters of love,
On thy almighty Father's hands,
And never shall remove.

3 Before his ever- watchful eye

Thy mournful state appears,
And every groan, and every sigh,
Divine compassion hears.

4 O Zion, learn to doubt no more,

Be every fear suppressed ;
Unchanging truth and love and power
Dwell in thy Saviour's breast.

o

IdO Psalm 103: 17, 18. C. M.

LORD, thy covenant is sure
To all who fear thy name ;
Thy mercies age on age endure,
Eternally the same.

2 In thee our fathers put their trust ;
Thy ways they humbly trod ;

Honored and sacred is their dust,
And still they live to God.

3 Heirs in their faith, their hope, their prayer,
We the same path pursue ;

Entail the blessing to our heirs ;
Lord, show thy promise true.

S1

Love to Christ. 403

1 0\J ".Toy in the Atonement." 7s. 61.

[ION'S daughter, weep no more,
Though thy troubled heart be sore ;
He of whom the Psalmist sung,
He who woke the Prophet's tongue, —
Christ, the Mediator blest, —
Brings thee everlasting rest.

2 In a garden man became

Heir of sin and death and shame ;
Jesus in a garden wins
Life and pardon for our sins ;
Through his hour of agony,
Praying in Gethsemane.

3 There for us he intercede- ;

There with God the Father pleads ;
Willing there for us to drain
To the dregs the cup of pain,
That, in everlasting day,
He may wipe our tears away.

4 Therefore to his name be triven
Glory, both in earth and heaven;
To the Father, and the .Son,
And the Spirit, three in One,
Honor, praise, and glory be,
Now, and through eternity.

74U Love to Christ, 7s. 61.

RESTING from his work to-day
In the tomb the Saviour lay;
Still he slept, from head to feet,
Shrouded in the winding-sheet,
Lying in the rock alone,
Hidden by the sealed stone.

2 Late at evening there was seen,
Watching long, the Magdalene !

494 The Church of Christ.

Early, ere the break of day,
Sorrowful she took her way
To the holy garden glade
Where her buried Lord was laid.

3 So, with thee, till life shall end,
I would solemn vigil spend :
Let me hew thee, Lord, a shrine
In this rocky heart of mine,
Where, in pure, embalmed cell,
Thou, and thou alone shalt dwell.

4 Myrrh and spices will I bring,
True affection's offering ;

Close the door from sight and sound
Of the busy world around ;
And in patient watch remain
Till my Lord appear again.

/41 Bread of Heaven. 7s.

BREAD of heaven ! on thee we feed,
For thy flesh is meat indeed :
Ever let our souls be fed
With this true and living bread !

2 Vine of heaven ! thy blood supplies
This blest cup of sacrifice :

Lord ! thy wounds our healing give,
To thy cross we look and live.

3 Day by day with strength supplied,
Through the life of him who died,
Lord of life ! oh, let us be
Rooted, grafted, built on thee !

742

Ruth 1 : 16. 7s.

PEOPLE of the living God,
I have sought the world around,
Paths of sin and sorrow7 trod,

Peace and comfort nowhere found.

'Joining the Church. 495

2 Now to you my spirit turns, —

Turns, a fugitive unblest ;
Brethren ! where your altar burns,
Oh, receive me into rest !

3 Lonely I no longer roam,

Like the cloud, the wind, the wave :
Where you dwell shall be my home,
Where you die shall be my grave.

4 Mine the God whom you adore,

Your Redeemer shall be mine;
Earth can fill my soul no more,
Every idol I resign.

/40 Joy in Praise. 7s.

JOYFUL be the hours to-day ;
.Joyful let the season be;
Let us sing, for well we may:
Jesus! we will sing of thee.

2 Should thy people silent be,

Then the very -tones would sing:
What a debt we owe to thee,

Thee, our Saviour, thee our King!

3 Joyful are we now to own,

Rapture thrills us as we trace
All the deeds thy love hath done,
All the riches of thy grace.

4 "Tis thy grace alone can save ;

Every blessing comes from thee,
All we have and hope to have,
All we are and hope to be.

5 Thine the name to sinners dear!

Thine the name all names before!
Blessed here and everywhere ;
Blessed now and evermore !

496 The Church of Christ.

744

Matt. 5: 3. 7s.

WHEN, my Saviour, shall I be
Perfectly resigned to thee ?
Poor and vile in mine own eyes,
Only in thy wisdom wise ?

2 Fully in my life express
All the heights of holiness ?
Sweetly let my spirit prove
All the depths of humble love.

745 2 Cor. 4: 10. 7s.

MY Saviour crucified,
Near thy cross may I abide,

There to gaze with steadfast eye

On thy dying agony.

o

2 Jesus bruised and put to shame,
Tells me all the Father's name ;
God is love, I surely know

By my Saviour's depths of woe.

3 In his sinless soul's distress,
I behold my guiltiness ;
Oh, how vile my low estate,
Since my ransom was so great !

4 Dwelling on Mount Calvary,
Contrite shall my spirit be ;
Rest and holiness shall find,
Fashioned like my Saviour's mind.

746

Acts 2: 16. 7s.

FOUNT of everlasting love !
Rich thy streams of mercy are ;
Flowing purely from above,
Beauty marks their course afar.

Sacramental Hymns. 497

2 Lo ! thy Church, athirst and faint,

Drinks the full, refreshing tide ;
Thou hast heard her sad complaint,
Floods of grace are sweeping wide !

3 God of mercy, to thy throne

Now our fervent thanks we bring;
Thine the glory, thine alone,
Joyous praise to thee we sing.

4 While we lift our grateful song,

Let thy Spirit still descend;
Koll the tide of grace along,

Widening, deepening, to the end!

747 -Hoar my Cry." 7a.

THOU who didst on Calvary bleed,
Thou who dost for sinners plead,
Help me in my time ni' need,

Jesus, Saviour, hear my cry!

2 In my darkness and my grief,
With my heart of unbelief

I, who am of sinners chief,
Jesus, lift to thee mine eye !

3 Foes without and fears within,
With no plea thy grace to win,
But that thou canst Bave from sin,

Jesus, to thy cross I fly!

4 There, on thee I cast my care,
There, to thee I raise my prayer,
Jesus, save me from despair,

Save me, save me, or I die!

5 When the storms of trial lower,
When I feel temptation's power,
In the last and darkest hour,

Jesus, Saviour, be thou nigh!
32

498 The Church of Christ.

JHcU Communion. I,. M.

O JESUS, bruised and wounded more
Than bursted grape, or bread of wheat,
The Life of life within our souls,
The cup of our salvation sweet!

2 We come to show thy dying hour,

Thy streaming vein, thy broken flesh ;
And still that blood is warm to save,
And still thy fragrant wrounds are fresh.

3 Let nevermore our sinful souls

The anguish of thy cross renew;
Nor forge again the cruel nails

That pierced thy victim body through.

4 Come, Bread of heaven, to feed our souls,

And with thee, Jesus, enter in !
Come, Wine of God ! and as we drink
His precious blood, wash out our sin !

/ 4ty Communion. Ij. M.

JESUS, thou everlasting King !
Accept the tribute which we bring ;
Accept the well-deserved renown,
And wear our praises as thy crown.

2 Let every act of worship be
Like our espousals, Lord, to thee;
Like the dear hour when from above
We first received thy pledge of love.

3 The gladness of that happy day,

Our hearts would wish it long to stay;
Nor let our faith forsake its hold,
Nor comfort sink, nor love grow cold.

4 Each following minute, as it flies,
Increase thy praise, improve our joys,
Till we are raised to sing thy name,
At the great supper of the Lamb.

Showing forth the Lord's Death. 499

/ OU "This do in Remembrance of Me." I*. M.

AT thy command, our clearest Lord,
Here we attend thy dying feast;
Thy blood, like wine, adorns thy board,
And thine own flesh feeds every guest.

2 Our faith adores thy bleeding love,

And trusts for life in One that died;
We hope for heavenly crowns above,
From a Redeemer crucified.

3 Let the vain world pronounce it shame,

And fling their scandals on the cause;
We come to boast our Saviour's name,
And make our triumphs in his cross.

4 With joy we t<-ll the Bcoffing age,

He that wae dead lias left his tomb;
He lives above their utmost rage,
And we arc waiting till hu come.

/OJ Prayer for Purification. I*. M.

T2 pray thee, wounded Lamb of God,

W1

Cleanse us in thine atoning blood;
Grant us, by faith, to view thy cross,
Then life or death is Lr:iin to US.

2 Take our poor hearts, and let them be
Forever closed to all hut thee;

Seal thou our breasts, and let us wear
That pledge of love forever there.

IDA Malt. 26: 29. 10s.

HERE, O my Lord, I see thee face to
lace ;
Here would I touch and handle things
unseen ;
Here grasp with firmer hand the eternal
grace,
And all my weariness upon thee lean.

500 The Church of Christ.

2 Here would I feed upon the bread of God ;

Here drink with thee the royal wine of
heaven ;
Here would I lay aside each earthly load ;
Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.

3 Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear;

The feast, though not the love, is passed

and gone;
The bread and wine remove, but thou art

here, —
Nearer than ever, — still my Shield and

Sun.

4 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by ;

Yet, passing, points to the glad feast above,
Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,
The Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss and
love.

/uu The Holy Catholic Church. 10s.

THE Church of Christ, which he hath hal-
lowed here
To be his house, is scattered far and near;
And yet in heaven above and earth abroad,
The church is one in Jesus Christ her Lord.

2 O Spirit of the Lord! all life is thine!

Come, fill thy Church with life and power

divine !
Let all the sons of men be born of thee,
And spread thy knowledge like the bound-
less sea!

/ 04 I>ea!h of a Minister. 10s.

GO to the grave in all thy glorious prime,
In full activity of zeal and power ;
Thou art not called away before thy time ;
The Lord's appointment is the servant's
hour.

Consecration. 50 1

2 Go to the grave; at noon from labor cease;

Rest on thy sheaves, thy harvest-task is

done;
Come from the heat of battle, and in peace,
Soldier, go home; with thee the fight is

won.

3 Go to the grave ; for there the Saviour lay

In death's embraces ere he rose on high;
And all the ransomed, by that narrow way,
Pass to eternal life beyond the sky.

/OO Hymn of Consecration. I.. >f .

OH, happy day, that fixed my choice
On thee, my Saviour, and my God!
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures all abroad.

2 Oh, happy bond, that seals my vows

To him who merits all my love I

Let cheerful anthems till his house,
While to that sacred Bhrine 1 move.

3 'Tis done, the great transaction's done;

I am my Lord's and he is mine:

He drew me, and 1 followed on,

Charmed to confess the voice divine.

4 Now, rest, my long-divided heart!

Fixed on this blissful centre, rest :
With ashes who would grudge to part,
When called on angel's bread to feast.

5 High heaven, that heard the solemn vow,

That vow renewed shall daily hear ;
Till in life's latest hour 1 how/

And bless in death a bond so dear.

/OD The Lord's Supper. L. X.

>FTTWAS on that dark, that doleful night,
-L When powers of earth and hell arose

502 The Church of Christ.

Against the Son of God's delight,
And friends betrayed him to his foes.

2 Before the mournful scene began,

He took the bread, and blessed and brake ;
What love through all his actions ran !
What wondrous words of grace he spake !

3 " This is my body broke for sin ;

Receive and eat the living food ;"
Then took the cup and blessed the wine ;
" 'Tis the new covenant in my blood."

4 " Do this," he cried, " till time shall end,

In mem'ry of your dying Friend ;
Meet at my table and record

The love of your departed Lord."

5 Jesus ! thy feast we celebrate ;

We show thy death, we sing thy name,
Till thou return, and we shall eat
The marriage-supper of the Lamb.

/ 0 / Welcome to Christian Fellowship. I*. M.

COME in, thou blessed of our God,
In Jesus' name we bid thee come ;
No more thy feet shall roam abroad,
Henceforth a brother, — welcome home.

2 Those joys which earth cannot afford,

We'll seek in fellowship to prove,
Joined in one spirit to our Lord,
Together bound by mutual love.

3 And while we pass this vale of tears,

We'll make our joys and sorrows known;
We'll share each other's hopes and fears,
And count a brother's cares our own.

4 Once more our welcome wre repeat ;

Receive assurance of our love ;
Oh, may we all together meet
Around the throne of God above.

Communion, Baptism. 503

/OO Communion.- Mark 14: 24. S. M.

BLEST feast of love divine !
Tis grace that makes us free
To feed upon this bread and wine,
In memory, Lord, of thee !

2 That blood which flowed for sin,

In symbol here we see,
And feel the blessed pledge within,
That we are loved of thee.

3 Oh, if this glimpse of love

Be so divinely sweet,
What will it be, 0 Lord, above,
Thy gladdening smile to meet?

4 To see thee face to face,

Thy perfect likeness wear,
And all thy ways of wondrous grace
Through endless years declare!

loo Baptism. S. M.

I BEAT God, now condescend
T To bless our rising race;

Soon may their willing spirits bend,
The subjects of thy grace.

2 Oh, what a pure delight
Their happiness to see;

Our wannest wishes all unite
To lead their souls to thee.

3 Now bless, thou God of love,
This Ordinance divine ;

Send thy good Spirit from above,
And make these children thine.

G1

760 Acls2:3i>. S. M.

^UR children thou dost claim,
O Lord, our God, as thine :

o*

504 The Church of Christ.

Ten thousand blessings to thy name
For goodness so divine !

2 Thee let the fathers own,

Thee let the sons adore ;
Joined to the Lord in solemn vows,
To be forgot no more.

3 How great thy mercies, Lord !

How plenteous is thy grace,
Which, in the promise of thy love,
Includes our rising race !

4 Our offspring, still thy care,

Shall own their fathers' God !

To latest times thy blessings share,

And sound thy praise abroad.

7ul Matt. 19:14. S.M.

THE Saviour kindly calls
Our children to his breast ;
He folds them in his gracious arms,
Himself declares them blest.

2 " Let them approach," he cries,

" Nor scorn their humble claim ;
The heirs of heaven are such as these ;
For such as these I came."

3 With joy we bring them, Lord,

Devoting them to thee,
Imploring that, as we are thine,
Thine may our offspring be.

/ OZ Beauty of Early Piety. C. M.

>Y cool Siloam's shady rill

B

How sweet the lily grows ;
How sweet the breath beneath the hill
Of Sharon's dewy rose!

Lo ! such the child whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod,

Baptism of Children. 505

Whose secret heart, with influence sweet,
Is upward drawn to God.

3 By cool Siloam's shady rill

The lily must decay;
The rose that blooms beneath the hill
Must shortly fade away.

4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour

Of man's maturer age
Will shake the soul with sorrow's power,
And stormy passions rage.

5 O thou who givest life and breath,

We seek thy grace alone,
In childhood, manhood, age, and death,
To keep us still thine own.

/DO Matt. 19:1-1. CM.

1EE Israel's gentle Shepherd stand

s

With all-engaging charms;
Hark, how he calls the tender lambs,
And folds them in his arms!

2 "Permit them to approach," he cries,

"Nor scorn their humble name;
For 'twas to bless such souls as these,
The Lord of angels came."

3 We bring them, Lord, in thankful hands,

And yield them up to thee;
Joyful that we ourselves are thine, —
Thine let our offspring be.

/04 Prayer for Pastor. I*. M.

WITH heavenly power, O Lord, defend
Him whom we now to thee commend;
Thy faithful messenger secure,
And make him to the end endure.

506 The Church of Christ.

2 Gird him with all-sufficient grace;
Direct his feet in paths of peace ;
Thy truth and faithfulness fulfil,
And arm him to obey thy will.

7u5 Gen. 17: 7; Rom. 15: 8. C. M.

HOW large the promise, how divine,
To Abra'm and his seed !-
" I'll be a God to thee and thine,
Supplying all their need."

2 The words of his extensive love

From age to age endure;
The angel of the cov'nant proves,
And seals the blessing sure.

3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms,

To our great fathers given;
He takes young children to his arms,
And calls them heirs of heaven.

4 Our God, how faithful are his ways!

His love endures the same ;
Nor from the promise of his grace,
Blots out the children's name.

/OU Consecration of Children. CM.

OUR children, Lord, in faith and prayer,
We now devote to thee:
Let them thy covenant mercies share,
And thy salvation see.

2 In early days their hearts secure

From worldly snares, we pray;
And let them to the end endure
In every righteous way.

3 Grant us before them, Lord, to live

In holy faith and fear;
And then to heaven our souls remove,
And bi'ing our children there.

Gospel Ministry. 507

/ D / Covenant Hymn. C. M.

COME, let us join our souls to God,
In everlasting bands ;
And seize the blessings he bestows,
With eager hearts and hands.

2 Come, let us seal without delay

The cov'nant of his grace;
Nor shall the years of distant life
Its memory efface.

3 Thus may our rising offspring haste

To Beek their fathers1 God;
Nor e'er forsake the happy path

Their youthful feet have trod.

L

/DO >fa!t. «>: S8. S. M.

OKI) of the harvest! hear
1-^ Thy needy e ervants cry ;
Answer our faith's effectual prayer,

And all our want.- supply.
On thee we humbly wait ;

Our wani- are in thy vi
The harvest truly. Lord, is great,

The laborers are few.

2 Convert and send forth more
Into thy Church abroad :

And let them speak thy word of power,
A- workers with their ( rod.

Give the pure < rospel-word,

The word of general grace;
Thee let them preach, the common Lord,

The Saviour of OUT race.

3 Oh, let them spread thy name
Their mission fully prove;

Thy universal grace proclaim,
Thy all-redeeming love.

508 The Church of Christ.

On all mankind, forgiven,
Empower them still to call,

And tell each creature under heaven
That thou hast died for all.

H(

769 Isaiah 52: 7. S. M.

"OW beauteous are their feet
Who stand on Zion's hill!
Who bring salvation on their tongues,

And words of peace reveal!
How charming is their voice!
How sweet the tidings are!
"Zion, behold thy Saviour, King;
He reigns and triumphs here."

2 How happy are our ears
That hear this joyful sound!

Which kings and prophets waited for,
And sought, but never found.

How blessed are our eyes
That see this heavenly light!

Prophets and kings desired it long,
But died without the sight.

3 The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ ;

Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,

And deserts learn the joy.
The Lord makes bare his arm

Through all the earth abroad;
Let every nation now behold

Their Saviour and their God.

/ / U Dedication. 1*. M.

^H, bow thine ear, Eternal One !
On thee our heart adoring calls ;
To thee the followers of thy Son
Have raised, and now devote these walls.

O'

Ordination. 509

2 Here let thy holy da)rs be kept ;

And be this place to worship given,
Like that bright spot where Jacob slept,
The house of God, the gate of heaven.

3 Here may thine honor dwell ; and here,

As incense, let thy children's prayer,
From contrite hearts and lips sincere,
Rise on the still and holy air.

4 Here be thy praise devoutly sung;

Here let thy truth beam forth to save,
As when, of old, thy Spirit hung,

On wings of light, o'er Jordan's wave.

5 And when the lips, that with thy name

Are vocal now, to dost shall turn,
On others may devotion's flame
Be kindled here, and purely burn!

Ill Ordination. I.. M.

HEJBE, Lord of life and light, to thee
Our pilgrim fathers bowed the knee;
Thou heard'sl their prayer, and in this place
They reared the temple of thy grace.

L* Here thy own servants preached thy word,
Safe from the prison and the sword;
Nor preached in vain, each rolling year
Gave witness that the Lord was here.

3 Here still thy word is preached, and still,
As once on Zion's sacred hill.

Thy grace descends like timely showers,
For still our fathers' God is ours.

4 Amid our fathers' graves, to-day,
To thee, our fathers' God, we pray:
Here on thy Church, till time shall end,
Let showers of heavenly grace descend.

510 The Church of Christ,

G(

/ / Z Dedication. €. M".

[_0D of the universe, to thee
This sacred fane we rear,
And now, with songs and bended knee,
Invoke thy presence here.

2 Long may this echoing dome resound

The praises of thy name,
These hallowed walls to all around
The triune God proclaim.

3 Here let thy love, thy presence dwell ;

Thy glory here make known ;
Thy people's home, oh, come and fill,
And seal it as thine own.

4 And when the last long Sabbath morn

Upon the just shall rise,
May all who own thee here be borne
To mansions in the skies.

I/O Dedication. C. Iff.

OTHOU, whose own vast temple stands,
Built over earth and sea,
Accept the walls that human hands
Have raised to worship thee !

2 Lord, from thine inmost glory send,

Within these courts to bide,
The peace that dwelleth without end
Serenely by thy side !

3 May erring minds that worship here

Be taught the better way ;
And they who mourn, and they who fear,
Be strengthened as they pray.

4 May faith grow firm, and love grow warm,

And pure devotion rise,
While round these hallowed walls the storm
Of earth-born passion dies.

A1

Spread of the Gospel. 5 1 1

//4 Dedication. I,. M .

ND will the great eternal God,
On earth establish his abode?
And will he from his radiant throne
Accept our temples for his own ?

2 These w>alls we to thy honor raise ;
Long may they echo with thy praise!
And thou, descending, fill the place
With choicest tokens of thy grace.

3 Here let the great Redeemer reign,
With all the graces of his train ;
While power divine his word attends,
To conquer foes, and cheer his friends.

4 And in the great decisive day,
When God the nations shall survey,
May it before the world appear,
That crowds were born to glory here.

/ /O JIntt. <l: 10. S. M.

COME, kingdom of our God,
Sweet reign of light and love!
Shed peace and hope and joy abroad,
And wisdom from above.

2 Over our spirits first

Extend thy healing reign;

There raise and quench the sacred thirst
That never pains again.

3 Come, kingdom of our God!

And make the broad earth thine;
Stretch o'er her lands and isles the rod
That flowers with grace divine.

4 Soon may all tribes be blest

With fruit from life's glad tree;
And in its shade like brothers rest,
Sons of one family.

512 The Church of Christ.

o

/ / U Isaiali 60 : 2. S.

LORD our God ! arise,
The cause of truth maintain;
And wide o'er all the peopled world
Extend her blessed reign.

2 Thou Prince of life! arise, #
Nor let thy glory cease ;

Far spread the conquests of thy grace,
And bless the earth with peace.

3 Thou Holy Ghost ! arise,
Extend thy healing wing,

And, o'er a dark and ruined world,
Let light and order spring.

o

777 Phil. 2 : 10, 11. S. M.

THOU whom we adore !
To bless our earth again,
Assume thine own almighty power,
And o'er the nations reign.

2 The wrorld's desire and hope,

All power to thee is given ;
Now set the last great empire up,
Eternal Lord of heaven !

3 According to thy word,

Now be thy grace revealed ;
And with the knowledge of the Lord,
Let all the earth be filled.

/ / O Prayer for Revival. S. M.

LORD, thy work revive,

o

In Zion's gloomy hour ;
And make her dying graces live
By thy restoring power.

Awake thy chosen few

To fervent, earnest prayer ;

Death of a Pastor. 5 13

Again their sacred vows renew ;
Thy blessed presence share.

3 Thy Spirit then will speak

Through lips of feeble clay,
And hearts of adamant will break,
And rebels will obey.

4 Lord ! lend thy gracious ear ;

Oh, listen to our cry !
Oh, come and bring salvation here!
Our hopes on thee rely.

/ l\j Convocation of Mi 11 is tors. t. M.

POUR out thy Spirit from on high;
Lord ! thine assembled servants bless;
Graces and gifts to each supply,

And clothe thy priests with righteousness.

2 Within thy temple where we stand,

To teach the truth as taught by thee,
Saviour! like stars in thy right hand,
The angels of the churches be!

3 Wisdom and zeal and faith impart,

Firmness with meekness from above,
To bear thy people on our hearts,

And love the souls whom thou dost love: —

4 To watch and pray, and never faint;

By day and night strict guard to keep;
To warn the sinner, cheer the saint,

Nourish thy lambs, and feed thy sheep.

5 Then, when our work is finished here,

In humble hope our charge resign:

When the chief Shepherd shall appear,

O God ! may they and we be thine.

/OvJ Beatli of a Pastor. S. M.

REST from thy labor, rest,
Soul of the just, set free !

33

514 The Church of Christ.

Blest be thy memory, and blest
Thy bright example be.

2 Now, toil and conflict o'er,

Go, take with saints thy place ;
But go as each has gone before,
A sinner saved by grace.

3 Saviour ! into thy hands

Our pastor we resign,
And now we wait thine own commands ;
We were not his, but thine.

4 Thou art thy Church's Head ;

And when the members die,
Thou raisest others in their stead ;
To thee we lift our eye.

5 On thee our hopes depend,

We gather round our Rock ;
Send whom thou wilt, but condescend
Thyself to feed thy flock.

/Ol Installation or Ordination. L. JI .

DRAW near, O Son of God ! draw near ;
Us with thy flaming eye behold ;
Still in thy Church do thou appear,
And let our candlestick be gold.

2 Oh, clothe their words with power divine,
And let those words be ever thine ;
To them thy sacred truth reveal ;
Suppress their fear, inflame their zeal.

3 Teach them to sow the precious seed ;
Teach them thy chosen flock to feed ;
Teach them immortal souls to gain ; —
And thus reward their toil and pain.

4 Let thronging multitudes around
Hear from their lips the joyful sound
In humble strains thy grace implore.
And feel thy Spirit's living power.

Ordination,

515

782 Ministry. C. M.

TIlIS not a cause of small import,

JL The pastor's care demands ;
But what might fill an angel's heart,
And filled a Saviour's hands.

2 They watch for those for whom the Lord

Did heavenly bliss forego ;
For souls, that must forever live
In rapture, or in woe.

3 All to the great tribunal haste,

Th' account to render there ;
And shouldst thou strictly mark our faults,
Lord, how should we appear!

3 May they that Jesus, whom they preach,
Their own Redeemer see;
And watch thou daily o'er their souls,
That they may watch for thee.

tOO Ordination. CM.

FATHER of mercies! condescend
To hear our fervent prayer,
While this our brother we commend
To thy paternal care.

2 Before him set an open door;

His various efforts bless
On him thy Holy Spirit pour,

And crown him with success.

3 In every tempting, trying hour,

Uphold him by thy grace ;
And guard him by thy mighty power
Till he shall end his race.

lOQ Proclamation of the Gospel. L. JI .

YE Christian heralds! go, proclaim
Salvation through Immanuel's name;

516 The Church of Christ.

To distant climes the tidings bear,
And plant the Rose of Sharon there.

2 He'll shield you with a wall of fire,
With flaming zeal your hearts inspire,
Bid raging winds their fury cease,
And hush the tempest into peace,

3 And when our labors all are o'er,
Then we shall meet to part no more, —
Meet with the blood-bought throng to fall,
And crown our Jesus — Lord of all !

785 Phil. 2: 10, 11. Jj. M.

O SPIRIT of the living God,
In all thy plenitude of grace,
Where'er the foot of man hath trod,
Descend on our apostate race.

2 Give tongues of fire and hearts of love,

To preach the reconciling word ;
Give power and unction from above,
Where'er the joyful sound is heard.

3 Be darkness, at thy coming, light ;

Confusion — order, in thy path ;
Souls without strength inspire with might ;
Bid mercy triumph over wrath.

4 Baptize the nations far and nigh ;

The triumphs of the cross record ;
The name of Jesus glorify,

Till every kindred call him Lord.

786

Psalm 72. !L. M.

JESUS shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run ;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

Missionary Hymns. 517

2 People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song ;
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on his name.

3 Blessings abound where'er he reigns ;
The prisoner leaps to loose his chains ;
The weary find eternal rest,

And all the sons of want are blest.

4 Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar honors to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud Amen !

/O/ Rev. 11: 11. !L.M.

OOOX may the last glad song arise

k3 Through all the millions of the skies, —
That song of triumph which records
That all the earth is now the Lord's !

2 Let thrones and power- and kingdoms be
Obedient, mighty God, to thee!

And, over land and Stream and main,
Wave thou the Bceptre of thy reign!

3 Oh, let that glorious anthem swell,
Let host to host the triumph tell
That not one rebel heart remains,

But over all the Saviour reigns !

^700 "JtaMM, thine own Kessiab reigns."
/OO Ii.M.

WHY, on the bending willows hung,
Israel ! still sleeps thy tuneful string?
Still mute remains thy sullen tongue,
And Xioifs song denies to sing?

2 Awake! thy sweetest raptures raise;

Let harp and voire unite their strains;
Thy promised King his sceptre sways ;
Jesus, thine own Messiah, reigns !

5 1 8 The Church of Christ.

3 No taunting foes the song require ;

No strangers mock thy captive chain ;
But friends provoke the silent lyre,
And brethren ask the holy strain.

4 Nor fear thy Salem's hills to wrong,

If other lands thy triumph share :
A heavenly city claims thy song ;
A brighter Salem rises there.

5 By foreign streams no longer roam ;

Nor, weeping, think of Jordan's flood ;
In every clime behold a home,
In every temple see thy God.

/Ov? Day of Promise. JL.JW.

BEHOLD the way to Zion's hill,
Where Israel's God delights to dwell ;
He fixes there his lofty throne,
And calls the sacred place his own.

2 " Behold the way !" ye heralds ! cry,
Spare not, but lift your voices high,
Convey the sound from shore to shore,
And bid the captive sigh no more.

3 Auspicious dawn ! thy rising ray
With joy we view, and hail the day :
Thou Sun ! arise, supremely bright,
And fill the world with purest light.

790 Mai. 4:2. 1*. M.

OSUN of righteousness, arise,
With gentle beams on Zion shine ;
Dispel the darkness from our eyes,
And souls awake to life divine.

2 On all around let grace descend,

Like heavenly dew or copious showers ;
That we may call our God our friend ;
That we may hail salvation ours.

Missionary Hymns. 510

/yi " All nations shall praise Thee." Ii. M.

THOUGH now the nations sit beneath
The darkness of o'erspreading death ;
God will arise with light divine,
On Zion\s holy towers to shine.

2 That light shall shine on distant lands,
And wandering tribes, in joyful bands,
Shall come, thy glory, Lord, to see,
And in thy courts to worship thee.

3 O light of Zion, now arise!

Let the glad morning bless our eyes!
Ye nations, catch the kindling ray,
And hail the splendors of the day.

l\jL (;«><i entreated for zion. i,. ]W .

INDULGENT Sovereign of the skies!
And wilt thou bow thy gracious ear?
While feeble mortals raise their cried,

Wilt thou, the great Jehovah, hear?

2 How shall thy servants give thee rest,

Till Zion'fl mouldering walls thou raise?
Till thy own power shall stand confessed,
And make Jerusalem a praise?

3 Look down, () God! with pitying eye,

And view the desolation round;
See what wide realms in darkness lie,
And east their idols to the ground.

4 Loud let the gospel trumpet blow,

And call the nations from afar;
Let all the isles their Saviour know,
And earth's remotest cm\< draw near.

iUO Missionary Hymn. Ij. MC.

SOVEREH rXof worlds! display thy power,
Be this thy Zion's favored hour,

520 The Church of Christ.

Bid the bright morning star arise,
And point the nations to the skies.

2 Set up thy throne where Satan reigns,
On Afric's shore, on India's plains,
On lonely isles and lands unknown ;
And make the nations all thine own.

3 Speak! and the world shall hear thy voice ;
Speak ! and the desert shall rejoice ;
Scatter the gloom of heathen night,
And bid all nations hail the light.

o

794 Matt. 13: 17. CM.

GOD ! our God ! thou shinest here,
Thine own this latter day;
To us thy radiant steps appear ;
Here beams thy glorious way !

2 The fathers had not all of thee !

New births are in thy grace ;
All open to our souls shall be
Thy glory's hiding-place.

3 On us thy Spirit hast thou poured,

To us thy word has come ;
We feel, we bless thee, quickening Lord,
Thou shalt not find us dumb.

4 Thou comest near : thou standest by ;

Our work begins to shine ;

Thou dwellest with us mightily ;

On speed the years divine !

/yO The Times of Promise. CM.

THE Lord will come, and not be slow ;
His footsteps cannot err ;
Before him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.

2 Mercy and Truth, that long were missed,
Now joyfully are met ;

Times of Promise. 521

Sweet Peace and Righteousness have kissed,
And hand in hand are set.

3 The nations all whom thou hast made

Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before thee, Lord !
And glorify thy name.

4 Truth from the earth, like to a flower,

Shall bud and blossom then,
And Justice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men.

5 Thee will I praise, O Lord, my God!

Thee honor and adore
With ray whole heart, and blaze abroad
Thy name for evermore !

/yb Rev. 21: 1-5. CM.

LO ! what a glorious sight appears
To olir believing eyes!
The earth and seas are passed away,
And the old rolling skies.

2 From the third heaven, where God resides,

That holy, happy place,
The New Jerusalem comes down
Adorned with shining grace.

3 The God of glory down to men

Removes his blest abode, —
Men, the dear objects of his grace,
And he, the loving God.

4 His own soft hands shall wipe the tears

From every weeping eye ;
And pains and groans and griefs and fears
And death itself shall die.

5 How long, dear Saviour ! oh, how long

Shall this bright hour delay?
Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time,
And bring the welcome day.

522 The Church of Christ.

s]

797 Gen. 1:2. CM,

[PIRIT of power and might, behold
A world by sin destroyed!
Creator Spirit, as of old,
Move on the formless void.

2 Give thou the word: that healing sound

Shall quell the deadly strife,
And earth again, like Eden, crowned,
Produce the tree of life.

3 If sang the morning stars for joy

When nature rose to view,
What strains will angel harps employ
When thou shalt all renew !

4 And if the sons of God rejoice

To hear a Saviour's name,
How will the ransomed raise their voice,
To whom that Saviour came !

5 Lo! every kindred, tongue, and tribe,

Assembling round the throne,
The new creation shall ascribe
To sovereign love alone.

l\jO latter-day Glory. CM.

IN latter days the mount of God
O'er mountain-tops shall rise;
Shall be exalted o'er the hills,
And draw the wondering eyes.

2 The beams that shine on Zion's hill

Shall lighten every land ;
The King who reigns in Zion's towers
Shall all the world command.

3 The nations, by his justice blest,

Shall give their battles o'er ;
To ploughshares they shall beat their
And learn to war no more. [swords,

Times of Promise. 523

4 Come, then, — oh, come from every land,
To worship at his shrine;
And, walking in the light of God,
With holy beauty shine.

/yy Isaiah 52: 1, 2. CM.

DAUGHTER of Zion, from the dust
Exalt thy fallen head ;
Again in thy Redeemer trust, —
He calls thee from the dead.

2 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, —

Thy beautiful array;
Thy day of freedom dawns at length, —
The Lord's appointed day.

3 Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge,

And send thy heralds forth;
Say to the south, "Give up thy charge,
And keep not back, O north !"

4 They come! they come! thine exiled bands,

Where'er they rest or roam,
Have heard thy voice in distant lands,
And hasten to their home.

5 Thus, though the universe shall burn,

And God his works destroy,
AVith songs thy ransomed shall return,
And everlasting joy.

OUU Isaiah 21: 11. 7s.

WATCHMAN! tell us of the night,
What its signs of promise are.
Traveller! o'er yon mountain's height,

See that glory beaming star!
Watchman ! does its beauteous ray

Aught of hope or joy foretell?
Traveller ! yes, it brings the day,
Promised day of Israel.

524 The Church of Christ.

2 Watchman ! tell us of the night,

Higher yet that star ascends.
Traveller! blessedness and light,

Peace and truth its course portends.
Watchman! will its beams alone

Gild the spot that gave them birth?
Traveller! ages are its own,

See, it bursts o'er all the earth.

3 Watchman ! tell us of the night,

For the morning seems to dawn.
Traveller ! darkness takes its flight,

Doubt and terror are withdrawn.
Watchman! let thy wandering cease;

Hie thee to thy quiet home.
Traveller! lo! the Prince of peace,

Lo ! the Son of God is come !

w

OUl Rev. 11:15. 7s.

^AKK! the song of jubilee,
Loud as mighty thunders roar,
Or the fulness of the sea,

When it breaks upon the shore!
Hallelujah! for the Lord

God omnipotent shall reign!
Hallelujah! let the word

Echo round the earth and main.

2 Hallelujah! hark, the sound,
From the depths unto the skies,

Wakes above, beneath, around,

All creation's harmonies!
See Jehovah's banner furled,

Sheathed his sword, he speaks — 'tis done !
And the kingdoms of this world

Are the kingdoms of his Son !

3 He shall reign from pole to pole,
With illimitable sway ;

He shall reign when, like a scroll,
Yonder heavens are passed away.

Triumph of the GospeL 525

Then the end: beneath his rod

Man's last enemy shall fall :
Hallelujah! Christ in God,

God in Christ is all in all !

H

OUZ The Gospel's Triumph. 7s.

"ASTEN, Lord ! the glorious time,
When, beneath Messiah's sway,
Every nation, every clime,
Shall the gospel call obey.

2 Mightiest kings his power shall own,

Heathen tribes his name adore ;
Satan and his host, o'erthrown,

Bound in chains shall hurt no more.

3 Then shall wars and tumults cease,

Then be banished grief and pain ;
Righteousness and joy and peace,
Undisturbed shall ever reign.

4 Bless we, then, our gracious Lord!

Ever praise his glorious name;
All his mighty acts record,

All his wondrous love proclaim.

OUvJ 1 Tim. 6: 15. 7«.

WAKE the song of jubilee,
Let it echo o'er the sea !
Now is come the promised hour ;
Jesus reigns with sov'reign power !

2 All ye nations, join and sing,

Praise your Saviour, praise your King;
Let it sound from shore to shore, —
11 Jesus reigns for evermore !"

3 Hark ! the desert lands rejoice,
And the islands join their voice;
Joy! the whole creation sings,

" Jesus is the King of kings !"

526 The Church of Christ.

804 1 Kings 18: 44. 7s.

SAW ye not the cloud arise,
Little as the human hand ?
Now it spreads along the skies,
Hangs o'er all the thirsty land.

2 Lo, the promise of a shower

Drops already from above ;
But the Lord will shortly pour
All the blessings of his love.

3 More and more it spreads and grows,

Ever mighty to prevail ;
Sin's strongholds it now o'erthrows,
Shakes the trembling gates of hell.

4 Sons of God ! your Saviour praise ;

He the door hath opened wide ;
He hath given the word of grace ;
Jesus' word is glorified !

OUO Luke 1: 78. 7a.

[ONS of men, behold from far,
Hail the long-expected Star !
Star of truth that gilds the night,
Guides bewildered men aright.

s<

AoA

2 Nations all, remote and near,
Haste to see your Lord appear ;
Haste, for him your hearts prepare,
Meet him manifested there !

3 There behold the Day-spring rise,
Pouring light on mortal eyes ;
See it chase the shades away,
Shining to the perfect day !

OUO "The Age of Gold." C. M.

LORD ! send thy word, and let it fly,
Armed with thy Spirit's power ;

Prayer for the Heathen, 527

Ten thousands shall confess its sway,
And bless the saving hour.

2 Beneath the influence of thy grace,

The barren wastes shall rise
With sudden greens and fruits arrayed,
A blooming paradise.

3 Peace, with her olives crowned, shall stretch

Her wings from shore to shore ;
No trump shall rouse the rage of war,
Nor murderous cannon roar.

4 Lord ! for those days we wait ; those days

Are in thy word foretold ;
Fly swifter, sun and stars ! and bring
This promised age of gold.

bU/ Prayer for the Heathen. CM.

REAT (rod, the nations of the earth
Are by creation thine ;
And in thy works, by all beheld,
Thy radiant glories shine.

G1

2 But, Lord, thy gfeatef love has sent

Thy gospel to mankind,
Unveiling what rich stores of grace
Are treasured in thy mind.

3 Lord, when shall these glad tidings spread

The spacious earth around,
Till every tribe, and every soul,
Shall hear the joyful sound?

OUO -Send forth Thy Word."' C. M.

JESUS, immortal King! arise,
Assert thy rightful sway,
Till earth, subdued, its tribute brings,
And distant lands obey.

528 The Church of Christ.

2 Ride forth, victorious Conqueror ! ride,

Till all thy foes submit,
And all the powers of hell resign
Their trophies at thy feet.

3 Send forth thy word, and let it fiy

The spacious earth around,
Till every soul beneath the sun
Shall hear the joyful sound.

H

Oljy Christ Triumphing'. C. M.

'AIL, mighty Jesus ! how divine
Is thy victorious sword !
The stoutest rebel must resign
At thy commanding word.

2 Still gird thy sword upon thy thigh,

Ride with majestic sway ;
Go forth, great Prince ! triumphantly,
And make thy foes obey.

3 And when thy victories are complete,

And all the chosen race
Shall round the throne of mercy meet,
To sing thy conquering grace ; —

4 Oh, may my humble soul be found

Among that favored band ;
And I with them thy praise will sound
Throughout Immanuers land.

OlU "Stand up for Jesus." 7s & 6s.

<TAND up! — stand up for Jesus!

s

Ye soldiers of the cross ;
Lift high his royal banner,

It must not suffer loss:
From vict'ry unto vict'ry

His army shall he lead,
Till every foe is vanquished,

And Christ is Lord indeed.

Mis

ssionaries. § 29

2 Stand up ! — stand up for Jesus !

Stand in his strength alone;
The arm of flesh will fail you, —

Ye dare not trust your own:
Put on the gospel armor,

And, watching unto prayer,
Where duty calls, or danger;

Be never wanting there !

3 Stand up! — stand up for Jesus!

The strife will not be long;
This day the noise of battle,

The next the victor's song:
To him that overcometh,

A crown of life shall be;
He with the King of glory

Shall reign eternally!

811

R

For Missionaries. 7s «fc 6s.

OLL on, thou mighty ocean!
And as thy billows flow,
Bear messengers of mercy

To every land below.
Arise, ye gales ! and waft them

Safe to the destined shore,
That man may sit in darkness

And death's black shade no more.
2 O thou eternal Ruler!

Who holdest in thine arm
The tempests of the ocean,

Protect them from all harm.
Thy presence e'er be with them,

Wherever they may be;
Though far from us who love them,

Still let them be with thee.

Ol£ Final Reigrn of Christ. 7s «fc 6s,

WHEN shall the voice of singing
Flow joyfully along?
When hill and valley, ringing
With one triumphant song,

31

530 The Church of Christ.

Proclaim the contest ended,
And Him who once was slain

Again to earth descended,
In righteousness to reign.

Old Isaiah 52: 7. 8s, 7s A 4s.

ON the mountain's top appearing,
Lo! the sacred herald stands,
Welcome news to Zion bearing, —
Zion, long in hostile lands:

Mourning captive!
God himself shall loose thy bands.

2 Has thy night been long and mournful?

Have thy friends unfaithful proved?
Have thy foes been proud and scornful,
By thy sighs and tears unmoved?

Cease thy mourning ;
Zion still is well beloved.

3 God, thy God, will now restore thee;

He himself appears thy friend ;
All thy foes shall flee before thee ;
Here their boasts and triumphs end :

Great deliverance
Zion's King will surely send.

4 Peace and joy shall now attend thee;

All thy warfare now is past;
God thy Saviour will defend thee;
Victory is thine at last;

All thy conflicts
End in everlasting rest.

0 14 Psalm 125 : 2. 8s, 7s & 4s.

*TON stands with hills surrounded, —
Zion kept by power divine;
All her foes shall be confounded,
Though the world in arms combine ;

Happy Zion,
What a favored lot is thine!

Z1

The Fountain of Salvation. 531

2 Every human tie may perish ;

Friend to friend unfaithful prove;
Mothers cease their own to cherish;
Heaven and earth at last remove :

But no changes
Can attend Jehovah's love.

3 In the furnace God may prove thee,

Thence to bring thee forth more bright,
But can never cease to love thee ;
Thou art precious in his sight;

God is with thee, —
God, thine everlasting light.

S1

01 0 Tho Fountain of Salvation. 8s, 7 s A Is,

EE, from Zion's sacred mountain,
Streams of living water flow ;
God has opened there a fountain
That supplies the world below!

They are blessed
Who its sovereign virtues know.

2 Through ten thousand channels flowing,

Streams of mercy find their way;
Life and health and joy bestowing,
Waking beauty from decay:

O ye nations,
Hail the long-expected day.

3 Gladdened by the flowing treasure,

All-enriching as it goes,
Lo ! the desert smiles with pleasure,
Buds and blossoms as the rose:

Lo, the desert
Sings for joy where'er it flows.

OlO Luke 2 : 32. 8s, 7s A 4s.

O'ER the gloomy hills of darkness,
Cheered by no celestial ray,
Sun of righteousness! arising,

Bring the bright, the glorious day ;

532 The Church of Christ.

Send the gospel
To the earth's remotest bound.

2 Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness, —

Grant them, Lord! the glorious light:
And, from eastern coast to western,
May the morning chase the night;

And redemption,
Freely purchased, win the day.

3 Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel!

Win and conquer, never cease;
May thy lasting, wide dominion
Multiply and still increase;

Sway thy sceptre,
Saviour ! all the world around.

0 1 / Christ's Messengers. 8s, 7s ds 4s.

"EN of God, go take your stations ;

M]

Darkness reigns o'er all the earth;
Go, proclaim among the nations
Joyful news of heavenly birth :

Bear the tidings,
Tell the Saviour's matchless worth.

2 Go, — and when exposed to dangers,
Jesus will your souls defend ;
Go, and wrhen 'mid foes and strangers,
He will still appear your friend:

His kind presence
Shall be with you to the end.

OlO I, uke 2 : 32. 8s, 7s «fc 4s.

O'ER the realms of pagan darkness
Let the eye of pity gaze;
See the kindreds of the people
Lost in sin's bewildering maze;

Darkness brooding
On the face of all the earth.

Spread of the Gospel. 533

2 Light of them who sit in darkness!

Rise and shine, thy blessings bring;
Light to lighten all the Gentiles !
Rise with healing in thy wing.

To thy brightness
Let all kings and nations come.

3 May the heathen, now adoring

Idol-gods of wood and stone,
Come, and worshipping before him,
Serve the living God alone.

Let thy glory
Fill the earth, as floods the sea.

Oiy The Day breaking. 8s, 7s «fc 4s.

YES ! we trust the day is breaking,
Joyful times are near at hand:
God, the mighty God, is speaking
By his word in every land :

God is speaking, —
Darkness flies at his command.

2 With the voice of joy and singing
Let us hail the dawning ray ;
Lo! the blessed day-star, bringing
O'er the earth a glorious day :

At his rising,
Gloom and darkness flee away.

OlX) Proclamation of the Gospel. 7s & 6s.

FROM Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand :
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain.

2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;

534 The Church of Christ.

Though every prospect pleases,

And only man is vile?
In vain with lavish kindness

The gifts of God are strown ;
The heathen, in his blindness,

Bows down to wood and stone!

3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted

With wisdom from on high, —
Shall we, to men benighted,

The lamp of life deny?
Salvation, oh, salvation!

The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation

Has learned Messiah's name,

4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story,

And you, ye waters, roll, „

Till, like a sea of glory,

It spreads from pole to pole ;
Till o'er our ransomed nature,

The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,

In bliss returns to reign !

o21 Matt. 25: 6. 7s & 6s*

REJOICE, rejoice, believers!
And let your lights appear;
The shades of eve are thickening,

And darker night is near ;
The watchers on the mountains

Proclaim the Bridegroom near,
Go, meet him, as he cometh,
With hallelujahs clear.

2 The saints, who here in patience

Their cross and sufferings bore,
With him shall reign forever,

When sorrow is no more :
Around the throne of glory

The Lamb shall they behold,
Adoring cast before him

Their diadems of gold.

Spread of the GospeL 535

3 Our hope and expectation,

O Jesus, now appear!
Arise, thou Sun, so looked-for,

O'er this benighted sphere!
With hearts and hands uplifted,

We plead, O Lord, to see
The day of our redemption,

And ever be with thee.

QLL I*aiali 66: &. ?s St 6*.

THE morning light is breaking ;
The darkness disappears ;
The sons of earth are waking

To penitential tears ;
Each breeze that sweeps the ocean

Brings tidings from afar.
Of nations in commotion,
Prepared for Zion's war.

2 Rich dews of grace come o'er as

In many a gentle shower;
And brighter scenes before us

Are opening every hour :
Each ery to heaven going

Abundant answer brings;
And heaveaaly gales are blowing,

With peace upon their wings.

3 See heathen nations bending

Before the God we love,
And thousand hearts ascending

In gratitude above;
While sinners, now confessing,

The gospel call obey,
And seek the Saviour's blessing,—

A nation in a day.

4 Blest river of salvation,

Pursue thine onward way;
Flow thou to every nation,
Nor in thy richness stay :

536 The Church of Christ.

Stay not till all the lowly

Triumphant reach their home ;

Stay not till all the holy

Proclaim, " The Lord is come.''

HJ

O^d Psalm 72. 7s «& 6s.

^AIL to the Lord's Anointed,
Great David's greater Son !
Hail, in the time appointed,
His reign on earth begun !
He comes to break oppression,

To set the captive free,
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.

He comes wTith succor speedy,

To those who suffer wrong ;
To help the poor and needy,

And bid the weak be strong ;
To give them songs for sighing,

Their darkness turn to light,
Whose souls, condemned and dying,

Were precious in his sight.

He shall come down like showers

Upon the fruitful earth,
And love and joy, like flowers,

Spring in his path to birth :
Before him on the mountains,

Shall peace, the herald, go ;
And righteousness, in fountains,

From hill to valley flow.

For him shall prayer unceasing,

And daily vows ascend ;
His kingdom still increasing, —

A kingdom without end :
The tide of time shall never

His covenant remove ;
His name shall stand forever, —

That name to us is — Love.

SECTION VIII.

MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY.

(a.) Brevity of Life. Contemplation of
Death. Prayers for Grace and
Deliverance. The Gain of Death.
Burial of the Dead. Hymns of
Consolation.

(b.) The Resurrection of the Dead.

(c.) The Judgm ent. ( 1li rist our only Stay
and Hope. The Righteous justi-
fied, and the If Yclced condemned.
Prayers for . Mercy.

id.) Heaven. Joys and Glories of Heaven.
Rest and Home. The Father's
House. The Saints in II liite Robes
and with Palms in their Hands.
No Night there, nor Sin, nor Sor-
row, nor Death. The Native Coun-
try of our Souls.

"There remaineth, therefore, a rest for the people of
God."— Hebrews -i: 9.

537

MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY.

824 Psalm 127: 2. I,. M.

WHY should we start, and fear to die !
What timorous worms we mortals are!
Death is the gate of endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.

2 Oh, if my Lord would come and meet,

My soul should stretch her wings in haste,
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she passed !

3 Jesus can make a dying bed

Feel soft as downy pillows are,
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there!

OZo PniiIiii 39. 1m M.

ALMIGHTY Maker of my frame,
Teach me the measure of my days ;
Teach me to know how frail I am,
And spend the remnant to thy praise.

2 My days are shorter than a span,

A little point my life appears ;
How frail at best is dying man !

How vain are all his hopes and fears !

3 Oh, spare me, and my strength restore,

Ere my few hasty minutes flee !

And when my days on earth are o'er,

Let me forever dwell with thee.

539

540 Mortality and Immortality.

0/Jb Psalm 103: 15. I,. M .

HOW vain is all beneath the skies !
How transient every earthly bliss !
How slender all the fondest ties,
That bind us to a world like this !

2 The evening cloud, the morning dew,

The withering grass, the fading flower,
Of earthly hopes are enblems true, —
The glory of a passing hour !

3 But though earth's fairest blossoms die,

And all beneath the skies is vain,
There is a land, whose confines lie
Beyond the reach of care and pain.

4 Then let the hope of joys to come

Dispel our cares, and chase our fears :
If God be ours, we're travelling home,
Though passing through a vale of tears.

827 i. m.

WHEN from my sight all fades away,
And when my tongue no more can say,
Then come, Lord Jesus, come with speed,
And help me in my hour of need.

2 When all my mind is darkened o'er,
And human help can do no more,
Then let me, resting on thy word,
Securely sleep in thee, my Lord.

0£0 1 Ttaess. 4: 14-18. I,. M.

ASLEEP in Jesus ! blessed sleep !
From which none ever wake to weep ;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

2 Asleep in Jesus ! oh, how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet !

Death of the Righteous. 54 1

With holy confidence to sing

That death hath lost its venomed sting !

3 Asleep in Jesus ! peaceful rest !
Whose waking is supremely blest ;
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
Which manifests the Saviour's power.

4 Asleep in Jesus ! oh, for me
May such a blissful refuge be !
Securely shall my ashes lie,

And wait the summons from on high.

829 Rev. II: 13. !L. M.

HOW blest the righteous when he dies,
When sink- a weary soul to rest!
How mildly beam the closing eyes!
How gently heaves th' expiring breast!

2 So fades a sumncr cloud away ;

So sinks the gale when -tonus are o'er;
So gently shut- the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.

3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow,

Fanned by some guardian angel's wing;
O grave, where is thy victory now?

And where, 0 death ! where is thy sting?

OoU Beel. 12: 7. Ii. M.

UNVEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb!
Take this new treasure to thy trust;
And give these sacred relics room
To slumber in the silent dust.

2 Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear,
Invade thy bounds; no mortal woes
Can reach the peaceful sleeper here,
While angels watch the soft repose.

542 Death of the Righteous.

3 So Jesus slept ; God's dying Son

Passed thro' the grave and blessed the bed :
Rest here, blest saint, till from his throne
The morning break, and pierce the shade.

4 Break from his throne, illustrious morn !

Attend, O earth! his sovereign word!
Restore thy trust : a glorious form
Shall then ascend to meet the Lord !

OvJl Psalm 103: 16. Ii.BI.

SO fades the lovely blooming flower,
Frail, smiling solace of an hour!
So soon our transient comforts fly,
And pleasure only blooms to die.

2 Is there no kind, no lenient art
To heal the anguish of the heart?
Divine Redeemer, be thou nigh :
Thy comforts were not made to die !

3 Then gentle patience smiles on pain,
And dying hope revives again ;
Hope wipes the tear from sorrow's eye,
And faith points upward to the sky.

832 Psalm 17. Ii. M.

WHAT sinners value I resign ;
Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine;
I shall behold thy blissful face,
And stand complete in righteousness.

2 This life's a dream, an empty show;
But the bright world to which I go
Hath joys substantial and sincere;
When shall I wake and find me there?

3 O glorious hour ! O blest abode !
I shall be near and like my God !
And flesh and sin no more control
The sacred pleasures of the soul.

Hope of the Resurrection. 543

4 My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
And in my Saviour's image rise.

OOO The Resurrection. Ij.'M.

CEASE, cease, ye vain, desponding fears;
When Christ, our Lord, from darkness
sprang,
Death, the last foe, was captive led,

And heaven with praise and wonder rang.

2 Faith sees the bright, eternal doors

Unfold to make his children way;
They shall be clothed with endless life,
And shine in everlasting day.

3 The trump shall sound, the dust awake,

From the cold tomb the slumberers spring ;
Through heaven with joy their myriads rise,
And hail their Saviour and their King.

Ou4 Hope of the Resurrection. L. M.

WHEN God is nigh, my faith is strong,
His arm is my almighty prop:
Be glad, my heart, rejoice, my tongue;
My dying flesh shall rest in hope.

2 Though in the dust I lay my head,

Yet, gracious God, thou wilt not leave
My soul forever with the dead,

Nor lose thy children in the grave.

3 My flesh shall thy first call obey,

Shake off the dust, and rise on high ;
Then shalt thou lead the wondrous way
Up to thy throne above the sky.

4 There streams of endless pleasure flow ;

And full discoveries of thy grace,
Which we but tasted here below,

Spread heavenly joys through all the place.

544 Longing for Heaven.

OOO The Resurrection. I,. M.

AWHILE they rest within the tomb,
In sweet repose till morning come!
Then rise with joy to meet their God,
And ever dwell in his abode.

2 Celestial dawn! triumphant hour!
How glorious that awakening power,
Which bids the sleeping dust arise,
And join the anthems of the skies.

3 This weary life will soon be past,
The lingering morn will come at last,
And gloomy mists will roll away
Beforie that bright, unfading day.

OUU Isaiah 57: 2. It, M.

GENTLY, my Saviour, let me down,
To slumber in the arms of death;
I rest my soul on thee alone,

E'en till my last expiring breath.

2 Soon will the storm of life be o'er,

And I shall enter endless rest;
There I shall live to sin no more,
And bless thy name, forever blest.

3 Bid me possess sweet peace within ;

Let childlike patience keep my heart;
Then shall I feel my heaven begin,
Before my spirit hence depart.

4 Oh, speed thy chariot, God of love!

And take me from this world of woe ;
I long to reach those joys above,
And bid farewell to all below.

OU / " Gone Before." ft* M.

DEAR is the spot where Christians sleep,
And sweet the strains their spirits pour;

Home and Rest in Heaven. 545

Oh, why should we in anguish weep? —
They are not lost, but gone before.

2 Secure from every mortal care,

By sin and sorrow vexed no more,
Eternal happiness they share

Who are not lost, but gone before.

3 To Zion's peaceful courts above,

In faith triumphant may we soar,
Embracing, in the arms of love,

The friends not lost, but gone before.

4 To Jordan's bank whene'er we come,

And hear the swelling waters roar,
Jesus! convey us safely home,

To friends not lost, but gone before.

OuO Hob. 1.1: II. L.M.

" T\rEVE no abidins rlty here:"

▼ ▼ Sad truth, were this to be our home;
But let this thought our spirits cheer,
"We seek a city yet to come."

2 "We've no abiding city here;"

We seek a city out of sight;

Zion its name, the Lord is there,
It shines with everlasting light.

3 Oh, sweet abode of peace and love,

Where pilgrims freed from toil are blest!
Had I the pinions of the dove,
I'd fly to thee, and be at rest.

4 But hush, my soul! nor dare repine;

The time my God appoints is best:
While here, to do his will be mine,
And his to fix my time of rest.

Ou9 A Well-spout Life. Ii. M.

HOW blest is he whose tranquil mind,
When life declines, recalls again

546 Nearer Home,

The years that time has cast behind,
And reaps delight from toil and pain.

2 So, when the transient storm is past,

The sudden gloom and driving shower,
The sweetest sunshine is the last;

840

The loveliest is the evening hour.

Nearer Home. S. M.

ONE sweetly solemn thought
Comes to me o'er and o'er, —
Nearer my home, to-day, am I
Than e'er I've been before;

2 Nearer my Father's house,

Where many mansions be;
Nearer my Saviour's glorious throne;
Nearer the crystal sea ;

3 Nearer the bound of life,

Where burdens are laid down ;
Nearer to leave the heavy cross ;
Nearer to gain the crown.

4 But, lying dark between,

Winding down through the night,
There rolls the deep and unknown stream
That leads at last to light.

5 E'en nowr, perchance, my feet

Are slipping on the brink,
And I, to-day, am nearer home, —
Nearer than now I think.

6 Father, perfect my trust!

Strengthen my power of faith!
Nor let me stand, at last, alone
Upon the shore of death.

o41 Num. 23: 10. S. M,

kH for the death of those
Who slumber in the Lord!

0]

Death of the Righteous. 54*7

Oh, be like theirs my last repose,
Like theirs my last reward!

2 Their bodies in the ground,

In silent hope may lie,
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound
Shall call them to the sky.

3 Their ransomed spirits soar,

On wings of faith and love,

To meet the Saviour they adore,

And reign with him above.

4 With us their names shall live

Through Ion ding years,

Embalmed with all our hearts can give,
Our praises and oui

5 Oh for the death of tl

Who Blumber in the Lord!
Oh, be like i nose,

Like their.- my last reward!

b4^ Zocli. 1: 1. S^M.

OW swift the torrent rolls,

H(

That bears us to the
The tide which hurries thoughtless souls
To vast eternity!

2 Our fathers, where are they,

With all they called th dr own?

Their joys and griefs and hopes and cares
And wealth and honor gone!

3 God of our fathers, hear.

Thou everlasting Friend!
While we, as on life's utmost verge,
Our souls to thee commend.

4 Of all the pious dead

May we the footsteps trace,

Till with them in the land of light,
AVe dwell before thy face.

548 The Death of Friends.

843 Phil. 1 : 21. C. M.

WHY should our tears in sorrow flow,
When God recalls his own;
And bids them leave a world of woe
For an immortal crown?

2 Is not e'en death a gain to those

Whose life to God was given?
Gladly to earth their eyes they close,
To open them in heaven.

3 Their toils are past, their work is done,

And they are fully blest:
They fought the fight, the victory won,
And entered into rest.

4 Then let our sorrows cease to flow, —

God has recalled his own ;
And let our hearts in every woe,
Still say, "Thy will be done!"

o44 2 Cos-. 5:8. C. M.

"1TTHY do we mourn departing friends,

▼ ▼ Or shake at death's alarms?
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To call them to his arms.

2 Are we not tending upward, too,

As fast as time can move?
Nor would we wish the hours more slow,
To keep us from our love.

3 Why should we tremble to convey

Their bodies to the tomb?
There the dear flesh of Jesus lay,
And scattered all the gloom.

4 The graves of all the saints he blessed,

And softened every bed;
Where should the dying members rest,
But with the dying Head?

Treasures in Heaven. 549

5 Thence he arose, ascending high,

And showed our feet the way;
Up to the Lord we, too, shall fly,
At the great rising day.

6 Then let the last loud trumpet sound,

And bid our kindred rise;
Awake! ye nations under ground;
Ye saints! ascend the skies.

O40 "They rest from their tabors." CM.

NOT for the pious dead we weep ;
Their sorrows now are o'er;
The sea is calm, the tempest past,
On that eternal shore.

2 Their peace is sealed, their rest is sure,

Within that better home;
Awhile we weep and linger here,
Then follow to the tomb.

3 Oh, mighl some dream of visioned bliss,

Some trance of rapture, >how
Where, on the bosom of their God,
They rest from human woe!

4 Jesus! our shadowy path illume,

And teach the chastened mind
To welcome all that's left of good,
To all that's lost resigned.

040 "Treasures in Hoavcn." CM.

NOTHEE hand is beckoning us,
Another call is given,
And glows once more with angel steps
The path that leads to heaven.

A1

Unto our Father's will alone
One thought hath reconciled :

That He whose love exceedeth ours
Hath taken home his child.

550 Here a?id Hereafter.

3 Fold her, O Father, in thine arms,

And let her henceforth be
A messenger of love between
Our human hearts and thee.

4 Still let her mild rebuking stand

Between us and the wrong,
And her dear memory serve to make
Our faith in goodness strong.

OHii The Undiscovered Country. CM.

THERE is a state unknown, unseen,
Where parted souls must be ;
And but a step doth lie between
That world of souls and me.

2 I see no light, I hear no sound,

When midnight shades are spread ;
Yefc angels pitch their tents around
And guard my quiet bed.

3 The things unseen, O God, reveal ;

My spirit's vision clear,
Till I shall feel and see and know
That those I love are near.

4 Impart the faith that soars on high,

Beyond this earthly strife ;
That holds sweet converse with the sky,
And lives eternal life.

o4o 2 Sam. 12: 23. C. M.

THRO' sorrow's night and danger's path,
Amid the deepening gloom,
We, followers of our suffering Lord,
Are marching to the tomb.

2 There, when the turmoil is no more,
And all our powers decay,
Our cold remains in solitude
Shall sleep the years away.

Here and Hereafter. 551

3 Our labors done, securely laid

In this our last retreat,
Unheeded o'er our silent dust,
The storms of earth shall beat.

4 Yet not thus buried or extinct

The vital spark shall lie ;
For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise
To seek its kindred sky.

5 These ashes, too, this little dust,

Our Father's care shall keep,
Till the last angel rise and break
The long and dreary sleep.

6 Then love's soft dew o'er every eye

Shall shed its mildest rays,

And the long-silent voice awake
With shouts of endless praise.

049 "To die la Gain." CM.

DEAB as thou wert, and justly dear,
We will not weep for thee;
One thought shall check ihe starting tear;
It is, that thou art free.

2 And thus shall faith's consoling power

The tears of love restrain:
Oh, who that saw thy parting hour
Could wish thee back again.

3 Triumphant in thy closing eye

The hope of glory shone;
Joy breathed in thine expiring sigh,
To think the fight was won.

4 Gently the passing spirit fled,

Sustained by grace divine :
Oh, may such grace on me be shed,
And make my end like thine !

552 Time and Eternity.

Q£H "As a Flower of the Field, so lie

OOU flourislieili." CM.

LET others boast how strong they be,
Nor death nor danger fear ;
But we confess, O Lord ! to thee,
What feeble things we are.

2 Fresh as the grass our bodies stand,

And flourish bright and gay :
A blasting wind sweeps o'er the land,
And fades the grass away.

3 Our life contains a thousand springs,

And dies if one be gone ;
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long !

4 But 'tis our God supports our frame, —

The God who made us first ;
Salvation to th' almighty name
That reared us from the dust.

OOl James 4: 13-15. S M.

TO-MORROW, Lord, is thine,
Lodged in thy sovereign hand,
And if its sun arise and shine,
It shines by thy command.

2 The present moment flies

And bears our life away ;
Oh, make thy servants truly wise,
That they may live to-day.

3 Since on this winged hour

Eternity is hung,
Waken, by thine almighty power,
The aged and the young.

4 One thing demands our care,

Oh, be it still pursued !
Lest, slighted once, the season fair
Should never be renewed.

A1

Time and Eternity. 553

5 To Jesus may we fly,

Swift as the morning light,
Lest life's young golden beams should die,
In sudden, endless night.

352 Job 19: 25. S.M.

ND must this body die?
This mortal frame decay ?
And must these active limbs of mine
Lie mouldering in the clay ?

2 God, my Redeemer, lives,

And ever from the skies
Looks down and watches all my dust,
Till he shall bid it rise.

3 Arrayed in glorious grace

Shall these vile bodies shine,
And every shape, and every face
Look heavenly and divine.

4 These lively hopes we owe

To Jesus' dying love;
We would adore his grace below,
And sing his power above.

5 Dear Lord ! accept the praise

Of these our humbL
Till tunes of nobler sound we raise
With our immortal tongues.

OOvJ lThess. 4: 17. S.K.

FOREVER with the Lord !
Amen, so let it be ;
Life from the dead is in that word,
'Tis immortality.

2 Here, in the body pent,

Absent from thee I roam ;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

554 The Rewards of Faithful Service.

3 My Father's house on high,

Home of my soul ! how near
At times to faith's foreseeing eye
Thy golden gates appear.

4 Ah ! then my spirit faints

To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above.

o]

qqZJ. a T5ie Recompense 0f Reward." S. M.

^H, what, if we are Christ's,
Is earthly shame or loss ?
Bright shall the crown of glory be,
When we have borne the cross.

2 Keen was the trial once,

Bitter the cup of woe,
When martyred saints, baptized in blood,
Christ's sufferings shared below.

3 Bright is their glory now,

Boundless their joy above,
Where, on the bosom of their God,
They rest in perfect love.

4 Lord, may that grace be ours,

Like them in faith to bear
All that of sorrow, grief, or pain
May be our portion here.

5 Enough if thou at last

The word of blessing give,
And let us rest beneath thy feet,
Where saints and angels live.

OCC " Well done, Good and Faithful Servant."

SERVANT of God, well done!
Best from thy loved employ :
The battle fought, the victory won,
Enter thy Master's joy.

The Rewards of Faithful Service. 555

2 The voice at midnight came ;

He started up to hear :
A mortal arrow pierced his frame ;
He fell, but felt no fear.

3 At midnight came the cry,

"To meet thy God prepare!"
He woke, and caught his Captain's eye;
Then, strong in faith and prayer,

4 His spirit, with a hound,

Left its encumbering clay:
His tent, at Bunri3e, on the ground
A darkened ruin lay.

5 The pains of death are past;

Labor and sorrow cei
And life's long warfare closed at last,
Hia soul is found in peace.

6 Soldier of Christ, well done!

Praise be thy new employ ;

And, while eternal ages run,
IJest in thy Saviour's joy.

856 Jcr. IS: 16. S. M.

THE swift declining day,
How fast its moments fly !

While evening's broad and gloomy shade
Gains on the western sky.

2 Ye mortals, mark its pace,

And use the hours of light ;
And know its Maker can command
At once eternal night.

3 Give glory to the Lord,

Who rules the whirling sphere;
Submissive at his footstool bow,
And seek salvation there.

556 The Transient and the Eternal.

4 Then shall new lustre break

Through death's impending gloom,
And lead you to unchanging light,
In your celestial home.

OU / "Mother Earth." 8s «fc 7s.

SHALL I fear, O Earth ! thy bosom,
Shrink and faint to lay me there,
Whence the fragrant, lovely blossom
Springs to gladden earth and air ?

2 Whence the tree, the brook, the river,

Soft clouds floating in the sky,
All fair things come, whispering ever
Of the love divine on high ?

3 Yea, whence One arose victorious

O'er the darkness of the grave,
His strong arm revealing, glorious
In its might Divine to save ?

4 No, fair Earth ! a tender mother

Thou hast been, and yet canst be :
And through him, my Lord and Brother,
Sweet shall be my rest in thee !

QUO Isaiah 64: 6. 8s «fc 7s.

SEE the leaves around us falling,
Dry and withered to the ground ;
Thus to thoughtless mortals calling,
In a sad and solemn sound : —

2 " Sons of Adam, once in Eden,

When, like him, ye blighted fell,
Hear the lesson we are reading,
'Tis, alas ! the truth we tell.

3 " Youth, on length of days presuming,

Who the paths of pleasure tread,
View us, late in beauty blooming,
Numbered nowx among the dead.

To Die is Gain,

557

4 "Though as yet no losses grieve you,

Gay with health and many a grace,
Let no cloudless skies deceive you,
Summer gives to autumn place.

5 "Yearly in our course appearing,

Messengers of shortest stay,
Thus we preach in mortal hearing —
Ye, like us, shall pass away."

6 On the tre eternal,

Oh, let all our id !

This alone, for* tal,

Bean a leaf that .-hall not fade.

QCQ "And thrrc shall bo no more I>entli/*
OOcJ Ss«t7s.

CEASE, j • mournei to languish

< )'(i- 1 1 you love;

Pain and d< at i. h\ and anguish

Enter not the world above.

2 While o

1 i >nely,thr ig shade,

are playing
und ill-' rtian's head,

3 Light and ! riving

From the bam I of i I high,

In his glorl

They .-hall i die.

4 Now, ye mourner to languish

O'er th< ■ you love ;

Far removed from pain and anguish,

They are chanting hymns ah ve.

ODU Job 7: 10. lis.

IWOULDnol In : I ask not to stay

Where storm after Btorm rises dark o'er
the way ;

558 Sweet Home.

The few lurid mornings that dawn on us hen
Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its
cheer.

2 I would not live alway ; no, welcome the tomb;
Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its

gloom;
There sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise
To hail him in triumph descending the skies.

3 Who, who would live alway, away from his

God,
Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode,
Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the

bright plains,
And the noontide of glory eternally reigns?

4 Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet,
Their Saviour and brethren transported to

greet ;
While the anthems of rapture unceasingly

roll,
And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the

soul.

4 Sweet Home." lis.

861

'1\/riD scenes of confusion and creature
-LfX complaints,
How sweet to my soul is communion with

saints ;
To find at the banquet of mercy there's room,
And feel in the presence of Jesus at home.

2 I sigh from this body of sin to be free,
Which hinders my joy and communion with

thee;
Though now my temptation like billows may

foam,
All, all will be peace when I'm with thee at

home.

Translation of the Righteous. 559

3 While here in the valley of conflict I stay,
Oh, give me submission and strength as my

day ;
In all my afflictions to thee would I come,
Kejoicing in hope of my glorious home.

4 Whate'er thou deniest, oh, give me thy grace,
The Spirit's sure witness, and smiles of thy

face;
Endue me with patience to wait at thy throne,
And find, even now, a sweet foretaste of home.

OU£ 1 Cor. 15: 19. S. H.M.

FRIEND after friend departs;
Who lias not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts

That finds not here an end :
Were this frail world our only rest,
Living or dying, none were blest

2 Beyond the flight of time,
Beyond this vale of death,

There surely is Borne blessed clime

Where life is not a breath,
Nor life's affections transient fire,
Whose sparks fly upward and expire.

3 There is a world above

Where parting is unknown;
A whole eternity of love

Formed for the good alone;
And faith beholds the dying here
Translated to that happier sphere.

Thus star by star declines

Till all are passed away,
As morning high and higher shines

To pure and perfect day:
Nor sink those stars in empty night;
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.

560 Burial of the Dead.

863

1 Cor. 15: 36. S. H.

THIS place is holy ground!
World, with its cares, away !
A holy, solemn stillness, round

This lifeless, mouldering clay:
Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear,
Can reach the peaceful sleeper here.

Behold the bed of death,

The pale and mortal clay!
Heard ye the sob of parting breath ?

Marked ye the eye's last ray?
No ! life so sweetly ceased to be,
It lapsed in immortality.

Why mourn the pious dead?

Why sorrows swell our eyes?
Can sighs recall the spirit fled?

Shall vain regrets arise?
Though death has caused this altered mien,
In heaven the ransomed soul is seen.

Bury the dead, and weep

In stillness o'er the loss :
Bury the dead! in Christ they sleep

Who bore on earth his cross;
And from the grave their dust shall rise,
In his own image to the skies.

864

Rev. 14: 13. 7s.

ARK ! a voice divides the sky !
Happy are the faithful dead
In the Lord who sweetly die!

They from all their toils are freed.

2 Ready for their glorious crown,

Sorrows past and sins forgiven, —
Here they lay their burden down,
Hallowed and made meet for heaven.

Gathered Home. 56 1

3 Yes, the Christian's course is run!

Ended is the glorious strife ;
Fought the fight, the work is done;
Death is swallowed up in life!

4 Lo! the pris'ner is released, —

Lightened of his heavy load;
Where the weary are at rest,
He is gathered in to God !

5 When from flesh the spirit freed,

Hastens homeward to return,
Mortals cry, " A man is dead!"
Angels sing, " A child is born!"

jDO Gathered Home. 7s.

CHRIST will gather in his own
To the place where he is gone,
Where their heart and treasure lie,
Where our life is hid on high.

2 Day by day the voice saith, "Come,
Enter thine eternal h< »mt» ;"
Asking not it' we can spare

This dear soul it summons there.

3 Did te ask us, well we know,

We should say, "Oh, spare this blow!"
Yes, with streaming eyes should pray,
"Lord, we love him, let him stay!"

4 Many a heart no longer here,
Ah! was all too inly dear:
Yet, O Love, 'tis thou dost call,
Thou who art our all in all.

OUO John 11: 23. 7s.

BROTHER, though from yonder sky
Cometh neither voice nor cry,
Yet we know from thee, to-day,
Every pain hath passed away.

36

562 Death.

2 Not for thee shall tears be given,
Child of God, and heir of heaven;
For he gave thee sweet release;
Thine the Christian's death of peace.

3 Well we know thy living faith
Had the power to conquer death;
As a living rose may bloom

By the border of the tomb.

4 Brother, in that solemn trust
We commend thee, dust to dust!
In that faith we wait, till, risen,
Thou shalt meet us all in heaven.

5 While we weep as Jesus wept,
Thou shalt sleep as Jesus slept;
With thy Saviour thou shalt rest,
Crowned and glorified and blest.

867

Matt. 24: 44. CM.

THERE is an hour when I must part
With all I hold most dear;
And life, with its best hopes, will then
As nothingness appear.

2 There is an hour when I must sink

Beneath the stroke of death !
And yield to Him who gave it first,
My struggling vital breath.

3 There is an hour when I must stand

Before the judgment-seat ;
And all my sins, and all my foes,
In awful vision meet.

4 There is an hour when I must look

On one eternity;
And nameless woe, or blissful life,
My endless portion be.

Eternity. 563

5 O Saviour, then, in all my need
Be near, be near to me :
And let my soul, by steadfast faith,
Find life and heaven in thee.

OUO Matt. 25:41. CJ.lt.

THAT awful day will surely come,
The appointed hour makes haste,
When I must stand before my Judge,
And pass the solemn test.

2 Thou lovely Chief of all my joys,
Thou Sovereign of my heart!

How could J bear to hear thy voice
Pronounce the sound, "Depart!"

3 Jesus, I throw my arms around,
And hang upon thy breast :

Without ious smile from thee4

My spirit cannot r<

4 Oh, tell me that my worthless name
raven on thy ha:

Show me some promise in thy book*
Where my salvation ,-tan<ls.

5 Give me one kind, assuring word,
To sink my fears again ;

And cheerfully my soul shall wait
Her threescore years and ten.

Eternity— Psalm 90. C. M,

GOD, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!

0

2 Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting thou art God, *
To endless years the same, ^-- •

564 "Judgment.

3 Thy word commands our flesh to dust:

"Return, ye sons of men;"
All nations rose from earth at first,
And turn to earth again.

4 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away ;
They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

5 O God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,
Be thou our guard while troubles last,
And our eternal home !

O / 0 Matt. 25 : 13. S. M.

THOU Judge of quick and dead,
Before whose bar severe,
With holy joy, or guilty dread,
We all shall soon appear ; —

2 Our cautioned souls prepare

For that tremendous day ;
Oh, fill us now with watchful care,
And stir us up to pray ; —

3 To pray, and wait the hour,

That awful hour unknown,
When robed in majesty and power,
Thou shalt from heaven come down !

4 Oh, may we all be found

Obedient to thy word, —
Attentive to the trumpet's sound,
And looking for our Lord !

5 Oh, may we all insure

A home among i\\Q blest ;
And watch a moment to secure
An everlasting rest!

Resurrection and 'Judgment, 565

O/l Resurrection and Judgment. S. M.

AKD am I born to die ?
To lay this body down ?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown ?

2 Waked by the trumpet's sound,

I from the grave must rise,
And see the Judge with glory crowned,
And see the flaming skies.

3 I must from God be driven,

Or with my Saviour dwell:
Must come at his command to heaven,
Or 1 art — to hell.

4 O thou, that wouldst not have

One wretch* die,

Who died'sl thyself, my soul to save
Prom endle* ; —

5 Show me the hun

Thy dreadful wrath severe ;
That, wh«-u thou conn st on thy throne,
I may with joy app a r.

O/Z The Judgment. S.M.

XI) will the Jud nd,

And inn-; the d< ad aris
And not a sii
liis all-disc<

A:

2 How will my heari endure

The • lay,

When earth and heaven before his face
Astonish d shrink away?

3 But ere the trumpet shakes

The mansions of the dead,
Hark, from the gospel's cheering sound
What joyful tidings spread!

566 The Judgment.

4 Ye sinners, seek his grace

Whose wrath ye cannot bear ;
Fly to the shelter of his cross,
And find salvation there.

873 Rev. 20: 6.

GKEAT God, what do I see and hear !
The end of things created !
The Judge of man I see appear,

On clouds of glory seated ;
The trumpet sounds ; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before ;
Prepare, my soul, to meet him.

2 The dead in Christ shall first arise,

At the last trumpet's sounding,
Caught up to meet him in the skies,

With joy their Lord surrounding,
No gloomy fears their souls dismay,
His presence sheds eternal day

On those prepared to meet him.

3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears,

Behold his wrath prevailing ;
For they shall rise, and find their tears

And sighs are unavailing :
The day of grace is past and gone ;
Trembling they stand before the throne,

All unprepared to meet him.

4 Great God ! what do I see and hear !

The end of things created !
The Judge of man I see appear,

On clouds of glory seated :
Beneath his cross I view the day
When heaven and earth shall pass away,

And thus prepare to meet him.

0/4 Psalm 31: 5.

WHEN my last hour is close at hand,
My last sad journey taken,

Falling Asleep hi Jesus. 567

Do thou, Lord Jesus ! by me stand ;

Let me not be forsaken :
O Lord ! my spirit I resign
Into thy loving hands divine :

'Tis safe within thy keeping.

2 Countless as sands upon the shore

My sins may then appall me;
Yet, though my conscience vex me sore,

Despair shall not enthrall me ;
For as I draw my latest breath,
I'll think, Lord Christ! upon thy death,

And there find consolation.

3 I shall not in the grave remain,

Since thou death's bonds hast severed ;
By hope with thee to rise again

From fear of death delivered,
I'll come to thee, where'er thou art,
Live with thee, from thee never part;

Therefore I die in rapture.

4 And so to Jesus Christ I'll go,

My longing arms extending;

So fall asleep in Blumber deep, —

Slumber that knows no waking,
Till Jesus Christ, (unV> only Son,
Opens the gates of bliss, leads on
To heaven, to life eternal.

O/O Death Conquered. Ii. M.

DEATH is no more among our foes,
Since Christ, the mighty Conqu'ror rose;
Both power and sting the Saviour broke;
He died, and gave the finished stroke.

2 Saints die, and we should gently weep ;
Sweetly in Jesus' arms they sleep;
Far from this world of sin and woe,
Nor sin, nor pain, nor grief they know.

568 The Coming of Christ.

3 Death is a sleep ; and oh, how sweet
To souls prepared its stroke to meet !
Their dying beds, their graves are blest,
For all to them is peace and rest.

4 Soon shall the earth's remotest bound
Feel the archangel's trumpet sound ;
Then shall the grave's dark caverns shake,
And joyful all the saints shall wake.

o7b 2 Tbess. 1 : 7. Ii. M .

THE Lord shall come! the eajth shall
quake ;
The mountains to their centre shake ;
And withering from the vault of night,
The stars withdraw their feeble light.

2 The Lord shall come ! but not the same
As once in lowly form he came, —

A silent Lamb before his foes,
A weary man and full of woes.

3 The Lord shall come ! a dreadful form,
With wreath of flame, and robe of storm,
On cherub-wings and wings of wind,
Anointed Judge of human kind !

4 While sinners in despair shall call,

" Rocks, hide us ! mountains, on us fall !"
The saints, ascending from the tomb,
Shall sing for joy, "The Lord is come!"

0/7 2 Peter 3: 10. !L. M.

THAT day of wrath ! that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away !
What power shall be the sinner's stay ?
How shall he meet that dreadful day ?

2 When, shrivelling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll ;
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead !

The Day of Wrath. 569

B Oh. on that day, that wrathful day,

"When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be thou the trembling sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away!

I O / O Fear of God's Wrath. !L. M.

FATHER!— if I may call thee so —
I tremble with my one desire :
Lift up this heavy load of woe,
Nor let me in my .-ins expire!

I tremble lest the wrath divine,
Which bruises now my sinful soul,

Should bruise and break this soul of mine,
Long as eternal ages roll.

Thy wrath, I fear, thy wrath alone,
This endless exile, Lord, from thee!

Oh, save! oh, give me (<» thy Bon,

Who trembled, wept, and hied for me!

o/y Mmtt. 21: .10. 7a.

DAY of anger! that dread day
Shall the sign in leaven display,
And the earth in ashes lay.
Oh, what trembling -hall appear,

When his coming -hall he near.
Who shall all things strictly clear!

When the trumpet .-hall command,

Through the tomb- of every land,
All before the throne to stand !
Death shall shrink and nature <pKike,
When all creatures -hall awake.
Answer to their Judge to make!

What shall I before him say?
How shall I be safe that day,
When the righteous scarcely may?

57° Prayer for Acceptance at the 'Judgment.

King of awful majesty!
Saving sinners graciously,
Fount of mercy! save thou me !

4 Leave me not, my Saviour ! — one
For whose soul thy course was run, —
Lest I be that day undone !

Thou didst toil my soul to gain,
Didst redeem me with thy pain, —
Be such labor not in vain !

5 Thou didst heal the sinner's grief,
Thou didst hear the dying thief,
Even I may hope relief!

Low thine ear in mercy bow,
Broken is my heart, and low!
Guard of my last end be thou !

6 When thy voice in wrath shall say,
"Cursed ones, depart away!"

Call me with the blest, I pray!
In that day, that mournful day,
When to judgment wakes our clay,
Show me mercy, Lord, I pray !

OOU Matt. 25 : 46. C. P. If.

WHEN thou, my righteous Judge, shalt
come
To take thy ransomed people home,

Shall I among them stand ?
Shall such a worthless worm as I,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right hand?

2 I love to meet thy people now,
Before thy feet with them to bow,

Though vilest of them all ;
But, can I bear the piercing thought,
What if my name should be left out,

When thou for them shalt call ?

The Two Worlds. 571

O Lord, prevent it by thy grace,
Be thou my only hiding-place,

In this the accepted day;
Thy pardoning voice, oh, let me hear,
To still my unbelieving fear,

Is or let me fall, I pray.

1 Among thy saints let me be found,
Whene'er the archangel's trump shall sound,

To see thy si face;

Then, loudest of the thfrong, I'll sing,
While heaven'g resounding mansions ring,
With shouts of \ d grace.

The Two Worlds. C. P. M.

881

LO! on a narrow neck of land,
Twixt two unbounded seas 1 stand,
Secure! insensil
A point of time, a mora
Removes me to yon heavenly place,
Or Bhuts me up in hell.

2 O God! my inmost sou] convert,

And deeply on my thoughtful In art

Eternal things impi 1
( Jive me to feel thei n weight,

And saw me ere it be too late; —

Wake me i

3 Before me place in dread array,
The pomp of that tremendous day.

When then with clouds -halt come
To judge the nations at thy bar;

And tell me, Lord! shall 1 be there
To meet a joy ted do<

4 Be this my one great business here, —
With holy trembling, holy fear,

To make my calling sure!

572 The ^Judgment.

Thine utmost counsel to fulfil,
And suffer all thy righteous will,
And to the end endure !

5 Then, Saviour, then my soul receive,
Then bid me in thy presence live,

And reign with thee above;
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope in full, supreme delight,

And everlasting love.

bO L Matt. 25 : 34. 8s, 7s <& 4s.

DAY of judgment! day of wonders!
Hark! the trumpet's awful souud,
Louder than a thousand thunders,
Shakes the vast creation round !

How the summons
Will the sinner's heart confound !

2 See the Judge, our nature wearing,

Clothed in majesty divine!
You, who long for his appearing,
Then shall say, "This God is miner

Gracious Saviour!
Own me in that day for thine.

3 At his call the dead awaken,

Rise to life from earth and sea ;
All the powers of nature, shaken
By his looks, prepare to flee ;

Careless sinner !
What will then become of thee?

4 But to those who have confessed,

Loved and served the Lord below,
He will say, " Come near, ye blessed !
See the kingdom I bestow :

You forever
Shall my love and glory know."

Christ coming to Judgment. 573

',>O0 The Judgment. 8s, 7s «fe 4s.

LO ! He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for flavored sinners slain ;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train.

Hallelujah !
God appears, on earth to reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold Him

Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those that set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,

Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see!

3 Yea, Amen! let all adore thee,

High on thine ♦•tenia] throne;
Saviour! take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for thine own.

Ob, conic quickly !
Everla iting ( rod ! come down.

Oo4 Matt. r> 1 : 27. 8s, 7s <fc 4s.

LO! the mighty God appearing, —
From on high Jehovah speaks !
Eastern lands the summons hearing,
O'er the wesl his thunder breaks:

Earth beholds him :
Universal nature

2 Zion all its light unfolding,

God in glory shall display:

Lo ! he comes, — nor silence holding,
Fire and clouds prepare his way:

Tempests round him
Hasten on the dreadful day.

3 Now the heavens on high adore him,

And his righteousness declare:

574 The Glories and Joys of Heaven.

Sinners perish from before him,
But his saints his mercies share:

Just his judgment!
God, himself the Judge, is there.

OOb Rev. 21: 23.

iH for a sweet, inspiring ray,

o1

To animate our feeble strains,
From the bright realms of endless day,—
The blissful realms where Jesus reigns !

2 There, low before his glorious throne,

Adoring saints and angels fall ;
And, with delightful worship, own

His smile their bliss, their heaven, their all.

3 Immortal glories crown his head,

While tuneful hallelujahs rise,
And love and joy and triumph spread
Through all th' assemblies of the skies.

4 He smiles, and seraphs tune their songs

To boundless rapture, while they gaze ;
Ten thousand thousand joyful tongues
Resound his everlasting praise.

5 There all the followers of the Lamb

Shall join at last the heavenly choir:
Oh, may the joy-inspiring theme
Awake our faith and warm desire !

8b6 ICor. 2:9. IL.M

IVTOW let our souls, on wings sublime,
JLl Kise from the vanities of time,
Draw back the parting veil,- and see
The glories of eternity.

2 Born by a new celestial birth,

Why should we grovel here on earth ?
Why grasp at transitory toys,
So near to heaven's eternal joys?

The Glories and Joys of Heaven. 575

Should aught beguile us on the road,
When we are walking back to God ?
For strangers into life wre come,
And dying is but going home.

Welcome, sweet hour of full discharge !
That sets our longing souls at large,
Unbinds our chains, breaks up our cell,
And gives us with our God to dwell.

To dwell with God, to feel his love,
Is the full heaven enjoyed above ;
And the sweet expectation now
Is the young dawn of heaven below.

)0 / The Glories and Joys of Heaven. L. HI.

H for a sight, a pleasing sight,

O1

Of our almighty Father's throne !
There sits our Saviour, crowned with light,
Clothed in a body like our own.

I Adoring saints around him stand,

And thrones and powers before him fall;
The God shines gracious thro' the Man,
And sheds sweet glories on them all.

5 Oh, what amazing joys they feel,

While to their golden harps they sing,
And sit on every heavenly hill,

And spread the triumphs of their King !

I When shall the day, dear Lord, appear,
That I shall mount, to dwell above;
And stand and bow and worship there,
And view thy face, and sing and love?

JOO The Happiness of Heaven. I*. M.

0 HAPPY saints, that dwell in light, #
And walk with Jesus clothed in white,
Safe landed on that peaceful shore,
Where pilgrims meet to part no more.

576 Happiness of the Saints in Heaven.

2 Released from sorrow, sin, and strife,
Death was the gate to endless life,
And now they range the heavenly plains,
And sing his love in melting strains.

3 They gaze upon his beauteous face,
And tell the wonders of his grace ;
Or, overwhelmed with raptures sweet,
Sink down, adoring at his feet.

4 Ah, Lord ! with faltering steps I creep,
And sometimes sing, and sometimes weep.
When shall I wake in heaven to prove
The heights and depths of Jesus' love ?

O09 Rev. 5:9. Ms. M.^

ARK ! how the choral song of heaven

Swells full of peace and joy above;
Hark ! how they strike their golden harps5
And raise the tuneful notes of love.

2 No anxious care nor thrilling grief,

No deep despair, nor gloomy woe
They feel, when high their lofty strains
In noblest, sweetest concord flow.

3 When shall we join the heavenly host,

Who sing Immanuel's praise on high,
And leave behind our doubts and fears,
To swell the chorus of the sky?

890 Rev. 22: 4. £.M

LO ! round the throne, a glorious band,
The saints in countless myriads stand :
Of every tongue redeemed to God,
Arrayed in garments washed in blood.

2 Through tribulation great they came ;
They bore the cross, despised the shame ;
But now from all their labors rest,
In God's eternal glory blest.

'

Rest in Heaven.

577

I They see the Saviour face to face ;
I They sing the triumph of his grace ;
i And day and night, with ceaseless praise,
I To him their loud hosannas raise.

U 1 Heaven. iL. M.

THERE is a land mine eye hath seen
In visions of enraptured thought,
So bright, that all which spreads between
Is with its radiant glories fraught.

A land, upon whose blissful shore
There rests no shadow, falls no stain :

There those who meet shall part no more,
And those long parted meet again.

Its skies are not like earthly skies,

With varying hut- of shade and light;

It hath no need of suns to rise
To dissipate the gloom of night.

There sweeps no desolating wind
Across that calm, serene abode;

The wanderer there a home may lind
Within the paradise of (ujd.

)9Z Host in Heaven. 8s A 6s.

rilHEBE is an hour of peaceful rest,
JL To mourning wanderers given;
There is a joy for Boula distressed,

A balm for every wounded breast:
Tis found abovi — in heaven.

I There is a home for weary souls,

By sin and sorrow driven, —
When tossed on life's tempe.-tuous shoals,
Where storms arise and ocean rolls,

And all is drear — but heaven.

3 There faith lifts up her cheerful eye,
To brighter prospects given;

37

578 Longing for Heaven.

And views the tempest passing by,
The evening shadows quickly fly,
And all serene — in heaven.

4 There fragrant flowers immortal bloom,

And joys supreme are given ;
There rays divine disperse the gloom ;
Beyond the confines of the tomb

Appears the dawn of heaven.

(JO O " Home of Sweet Repose." C. 31 .

THEEE is an hour of hallowed peace,
For those with cares oppressed,
When sighs and sorrowing tears shall cease,
And all be hushed to rest.

2 'Tis then the soul is freed from fears

And doubts which here annoy;
Then they who oft have sown in tears
Shall reap again in joy.

3 There is a home of sweet repose,

Where storms assail no more;
The stream of endless pleasure flow
On that celestial shore.

4 There purity with love appears,

And bliss without alloy ;
There they who oft had sown in tears
Shall reap again in joy.

Oa4 longing for Heaven. C. M.

THE roseate hues of early dawn,
The brightness of the day,
The crimson of the sunset sky,
How fast they fade away !

2 Oh for the pearly gates of heaven,
Oh for the golden floor,
Oh for the Sun of Righteousness,
That setteth nevermore !

The Father's House. 579

3 Oh for a heart that never sins,
Oh for a soul washed white,

Oh for a voice to praise our King,
Nor weary day nor night !

4 Here faith is ours, and heavenly hope,
And grace to lead us higher;

But there are perfectness and peace,
Beyond our best desire.

5 Oh, by thy love and anguish, Lord,
And by thy life laid down,

Grant that we fall not from thy grace,
Nor cast away our crown.

395 2 (or. 5: I. CM.

rilHEKK is a house not made with hands,
J- Eternal, and on high:
And here niv spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it ily.

2 Shortly this prison of my clay
Musi I)-- dissolved and fall ;

Then, <) my soul, with joy obey
Thy heavenly Pi call.

3 We walk by faith of joys to come;

Faith lives upon his word ;
Bui while the body is our home,
We're absent from the Lord.

4 Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,

But we had Hither -

We would be absent from the flesh,
And pn sent, Lord, with thee.

896 Joys of Heaven. C. M.

|H, could our thoughts and wishes fly
Above these gloomy shades,
To those bright worlds beyond the sky,

Which sorrow ne'er invades!

O1

580 Longing for Home.

2 There joys unseen by mortal eyes,

Or reason's feeble ray,
In ever-blooming prospect rise,
Unconscious of decay.

3 Lord! send a beam of light divine

To guide our upward aim ;
With one reviving touch of thine
Our languid hearts inflame.

4 Then shall, on faith's sublimest wing,

Our ardent wishes rise
To those bright scenes where pleasures spring
Immortal in the skies.

o97 ICor. 2:9, 10. C.M.J

"TVTOR eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard,
-L-^l Nor sense nor reason known,
What joys the Father has prepared
For those that love his Son.

2 But the good Spirit of the Lord

Reveals a heaven to come;

The beams of glory in his word

Allure and guide us home.

3 Pure are the joys above the sky,

And all the region peace ;
No wanton lips nor envious eye
Can see or taste the bliss.

4 Those holy gates forever bar

Pollution, sin, and shame;
None shall obtain admittance there,
But followers of the Lamb.

OyO Aspiration. C. III.

Y soul, amid this stormy world,

w

Is like some fluttered dove,
And fain would be as swift of wing
To flee to Him I love.

Heaven. 58 1

2 Ah ! leave me not in this dark world
A stranger still to roam ;
Come, Lord! and take me to thyself;
Come, Jesus! quickly come.

399 Heb. 6: 12. C. M.

GIVE me the wings of faith to rise
Within the veil, and see
The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be!

2 Once they were mourning here below,

And wet their couch with tears;

They wrestled bard, as we do now,

With mil- and doubts and fears.

3 I ask them whence their victory came:

They, with united breath,
■rib ■ their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to bis death.

4 They marked the >s that he trod;

His seal inspired their breast ;
And, following their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.

5 Our glorious L aims our praise

For his own patl irn given,

While the long cloud n[' witness -
Show the Bame path to heaven.

900 I>cul. 81: 1. CM.

TEERE is a land of pure delight,
Where saint- immortal reign,
Infinite day exclude- the night,

And pleasures banish pain.

2 There everlasting soring abides,
And never-withering flowers:

Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.

582 Great Cloud of Witnesses.

3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood

Stand dressed in living green ;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.

4 Oh, could we make our doubts remove, —

These gloomy doubts that rise, —
And see the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes : —

5 Could we but climb where Moses stood,

And view the landscape o'er, —
Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore.

901 Melb. 11. C. M.

RISE, O my soul, pursue the path
By ancient worthies trod ;
Aspiring, view those holy men
Who lived and walked with God.

2 Though dead, they speak in reason's ear,

And in example live ;
Their faith and hope and mighty deeds
Still fresh instruction give.

3 'Twas through the Lamb's most precious

blood
They conquered every foe ;
And to his power and matchless grace
Their crowns of life they owe.

4 Lord ! may I ever keep in view

The patterns thou hast given,

And ne'er forsake the blessed road

That led them safe to heaven.

y(J2 Rev. 21:10. CM.

MOTHEK dear, Jerusalem,
When shall I come to thee ?
When shall my sorrows have an end ?
Thy joys when shall I see ?

0

The City of God. 583

2 O happy harbor of God's saints !

O sweet and pleasant soil !
In thee no sorrow can be found,
Nor grief, nor care, nor toil.

3 No dimly cloud o'ershadows thee,

Nor gloom, nor darksome night ;
But every soul shines as the sun,
For God himself gives light.

4 Thy walls are made of precious stone,

Thy bulwarks diamond-square,
Thy gates are all of orient pearl, —

0 God ! if I were there !

303 K«*v. 21. €. M.

JERUSALEM! my happy home!
Name ever dear to me !
When shall my labors have an end,
In joy and peace in thee?

2 Oli, when, thou city of my God,
Shall 1 thy courts ascend,

Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths have no end ?

3 There happier bowers than Eden's bloom,
Nor sin nor sorrow know;

Blest seats I through rude and stormy scenes

1 onward press to you.

4 Why should 1 shrink at pain and woe?
Or feel, at death, dismay?

I've Canaan's goodly land in view,
And realms of endless day.

5 Apostles, martyrs, prophets, there,
Around my Saviour stand ;

And soon my friends in Christ below
Will join the glorious band.

584 Death is Gain,

6 Jerusalem ! my happy home !

My soul still pants for thee !
Then shall my labors have an end,
When I thy joys shall see.

904 I>eatli is Gain. C. M.

WHEN musing sorrow weeps the past,
And mourns the present pain,
'Tis sweet to think of peace at last,

And feel that death is gain.
/

2 ?Tis not that murmuring thoughts arise,

And dread a Father's will ;
'Tis not that meek submission flies,
And would not suffer still :

3 It is that heaven-born faith surveys

The path that leads to light,
And longs her eagle plumes to raise,
And lose herself in sight.

4 Oh, let me wing my hallowed flight

From earth-born woe and care,
And soar above these clouds of night,
My Saviour's bliss to share !

yUO Im Memoriam.

rPIHEY are all gone into the wTorld of light
-A- And I alone sit lingering here !
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear.

2 I see them walking in an air of glory,

Whose light doth trample on my days ;
My days, which are at best but dull and
hoary,

Mere glimmerings and decays.

3 Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just;

Shining nowhere but in the dark ;
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,
Could man outlook that mark !

Burial Hymn. 585

He that hath found some fledged bird's nest
may know

At first sight if the bird be flown ;
But what fair dell or grove he sings in now,

That is to him unknown.

5 And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep ;

So some strange thoughts transcend our
wonted themes,
And into glory peep.

6 If a star were confined into a tomb,
Her captive flame must needs burn there ;

But when the hand that locked her up gives
room,
She'll shine through all the sphere!

7 O Father of eternal life, and all

Created glories under thee!
Resume my spirit from this world of thrall
Into true liberty !

8 Either disperse these mists, which blot and
fill

My perspective still as they pass;
Or else remove me hence unto that hill,
Where I shall need no glass.

906 Ancient Burial Hymn.

IN the midst of life we are in death :
Of whom may we seek for succor
But of thee, O Lord ?
Who for our sins art justly displeased.

2 Yet, O Lord God most holy,
O Lord most mighty,
O holy and most merciful Saviour,
Deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal
death.

586 77?^ Saints in Glory ; their Joys and Songs.

3 Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our

hearts ;
Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer;
But spare us, Lord most holy,
Spare us, Lord most holy.

4 O God most mighty, O holy and merciful

Saviour,
Thou most worthy Judge eternal,
Suffer us not at our last hour,
For any pains of death, to fall from thee.

QH7 "Ood siiall wipe away all tears

\J\J I from their eyes." 7s.

HIGH in yonder realms of light,
Dwell the raptured saints above ;
Far beyond our feeble sight,

Happy in Immanuel's love :
Pilgrims in this vale of tears,

Once they knew, like us below,
Gloomy doubts, distressing fears,
Torturing pain, and heavy woe.

2 But these days of weeping o'er,

Passed this scene of toil and pain,
They shall feel distress no more, —

Never, never weep again:
'Mid the chorus of the skies,

?Mid thJ angelic lyres above,
Hark, their songs melodious rise, —

Songs of praise to Jesus' love !

3 All is tranquil and serene,

Calm and undisturbed repose;
There no cloud can intervene,

There no angry tempest blows ;
Every tear is wiped away,

Sighs no more shall heave the breast,
Night is lost in endless day,

Sorrow, in eternal rest.

Our Heavenly Home. 587

)08 Rev. 7:13. 7s.

WHO are these in bright array,
This innumerable throng,
Round the altar night and day

Hymning one triumphant song? —
"Worthy is the Lamb, once slain,

Blessing, honor, glory, power,
Wisdom, riches, to obtain,
New dominion every hour."

2 These through fiery trials trod ;

These hi affliction came:

Now, before the tbi

led with his almighty name,
Clad in raiment pure and white,

Victor-pair ery hand,

Through their dear Redeemer's might,

More than c n [uei stand.

3 Hunger, thir unknown,

On immortal fruits they B ed :

Them the Lamb, amid the throne,

Shall to In .tains lead:

Joy and gl 11S*>

i love dis a i

And forever

d shall wipe away the tears.

909

Home in Hon von. 6a.

mHERE is a blessed home
X Beyond this land of woe,
Where trials n<

Nor tears of sorrow flow;

2 Where faith is lost in si

And patient hope is crowned,
And everlasting light
fa glory throws around.

588 Longing to be with yesus.

3 There is a land of peace;

Good angels know it well ;
Glad songs that never cease
Within its portals swell.

4 Look up, ye saints of God !

Nor fear to tread below

The path your Saviour trod

Of daily toil and woe.

5 Wait but a little while

In uncomplaining love;
His own most gracious smile
Shall welcome you above.

U 1U " What must it toe to toe there V9 8s,

WE speak of the realms of the blest,
That country so bright and so fair,
And oft are its glories confessed ;
But what must it be to be there!

2 We speak of its freedom from sin,

From sorrow, temptation, and care,
From trials without and within ;
But what must it be to be there !

3 We speak of its service of love,

The robes which the glorified wear,
The Church of the first-born above;
But wThat must it be to be there!

4 Do thou, Lord, 'mid sorrow and woe,

Still for heaven my spirit prepare,
And shortly I also shall know,
And feel, what it is to be there.

911

liOiiging to toe with Jesus.

TO Jesus, the crown of my hope,
My soul is in haste to be gone ;
Oh, bear me, ye cherubim, up,
And waft me away to his throne.

The Native Country of our Souls. 589

2 My Saviour, whom, absent, I love;

Whom, not having seen, I adore;
Whose name is exalted above

All glory, dominion, and power ; —

3 When that happy era begins,

When arrayed in thy glories I shine,
Nor grieve any more, by my sins,
The bosom on which I recline, —

4 Oh, then shall the veil be removed!

And round me thy brightness be poured;
I shall meet him whom absent I loved,
I shall see whom unseen I adored.

5 And then, never more shall the fears,

The trials, temptations, and woes,
Which darken this valley <>f tears,
Intrude on my blissful repose.

)\L Ancient Hymn or Zion. 7s «fc 6s.

FOI! thee, < > dear, dear countiy,
Mine eyes their vigils keep:
For very love, beholding

Thy happy name, they weep.
Thou hast no shore, fair ocean !

Thou hast no time, bright day!
Dear fountain of refreshment
To pilgrims far away.

2 There is the throne of David;

And there, from e:nv releasi I.
The shout of them that triumph,

The Bong of them that I
And they who with their Leader

Have conquered in the fight,
Forever and tor

Are clad in robes of white.

3 They stand, those halls of Sion,

All jubilant with song;

590 The Glory of Heaven.

And bright with many an angel,
And all the martyr throng.

O sweet and blessed country,
Shall I e'er see thy face?

0 sweet and blessed country,
Shall I e'er win thy grace?

4 E'en now, by faith, I see thee !

E'en now thy walls discern !
To thee my thoughts are kindled,

And strive and pant and yearn.
Jerusalem ! exulting

On that securest shore,

1 hope thee, wish thee, sing thee,
And love thee evermore !

913

Ancient Hymn of Zlon. 7s «fc 6s.

BEIEF life is here our portion,
Brief sorrow, short-lived care!
The life that knows no ending,

The tearless life is there !
And now w7e w7atch and struggle,

And now we live in hope,
And Sion, in her anguish,
With Babylon must cope.

2 But He whom now we trust in

Shall then be seen and known ;
And they that know and see him

Shall have him for their own.
The morning shall awaken,

The shadow shall decav,
And each true-hearted servant

Shall shine as doth the day.

3 There God, our King and portion,

In fulness of his grace,
Shall we behold forever,
And worship face to face.

Aspiration. 59 1

Then all the halls of Sion

For aye shall be complete,
And in the land of beauty,

All things of beauty meet.

Aspiration. 7s & 6s.

RISE, my soul ! and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace ;
Rise from transitory things,

Toward heaven, thy native place.
Sun and moon and stars decay ;

Time shall soon this earth remove ;
Rise, my soul ! and haste away
To seats prepared above.

2 Rivers to the ocean run,

Nor stay in all their course;
Fire, ascending, seeks the sun;

Both speed them to their source;
So a soul, that's born of God,

Pants to view his glorious face,
Upward tends to his abode,

To rest in his cm brace.

3 Fly me, riches ! fly me, cares !

While I that coast explore ;
Flattering world! with all thy snares,

Solicit me no more :
Pilgrims iix not lure their home;

Strangers tarry but a night;
When the last dear morn is come,

They'll rise to joyful light.

4 Cease, ye pilgrims! cease to mourn, — ■

Press onward to the prize!
Soon your Saviour will return

Triumphant in the skies :
Yet a season, and you know

Happy entrance will be given,
All your sorrows left below,

And earth exchanged for heaven.

592 The Transient and Eternal.

y 1 0 " The Transient and Eternal." 7s <fc 6s.

TIME is winging us away
To our eternal home ;
Life is but a winter's day —

A journey to the tomb ;
Youth and vigor soon will flee,

Blooming beauty lose its charms ;
All that's mortal soon shall be
Enclosed in death's cold arms.

2 Time is wringing us away

To our eternal home;
Life is but a winter's day- —

A journey to the tomb ;
But the Christian shall enjoy

Health and beauty, soon, above,
Far beyond the world's alloy,

Secure in Jesus' love.

SECTION IX.

MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS.

a.) Times and Occasions. The Seasons.
The Close of the Year. The New
Year. Days of Fasting. Days of
Thanksgiving. Harvest. Tem-
perance. Prayers for those in
Peril on the Sea. Historic and
National Hymns.

b) Hymns pertaining to the Family.
The Happy Home. Early Piety.
Th 6 . \ 'art arc of Ch ihlren. Family
II or ship.

♦Both young men, and maidens: old men and chil-
eu? let them praise the name ot the Lord. -PSALM

Ire .
117: 12.

593

38

MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS.

t/lt) Xew Year. 7s. (Double.)

WHILE, with ceaseless course, the sun
Hasted through the former year,
Many souls their race have run,

Nevermore to meet us here :
Fixed in an eternal state,

They have done with all below;
We a little longer wait ;

But how little none can know.

2 As the winged arrow flics

Speedily the mark to find ;
As the lightning from the ski

Darts, and leaves do trace behind, —
Swiftly thus our fleeting days

Bear us down life's rapid stream;
Upward, Lord, our spirits raise,

All below is but a dream.

3 Thanks tbr mercies past receive;

Pardon of our Bins renew ;

Teach us henceforth how to live,

With eternity in view :
Bless thy word to old and young;

Fill us with a Saviour's love;
When our life's short race is run,

May we dwell with thee above.

y 1 / Close of the Year. 7s. (Doable.)

THOU who roll'st the year around,
Crowned with mercies large and free,
Rich thy gifts to us abound,

Warm our praise shall rise to thee.

595

596 New Tear.

Kindly to our worship bow,

AVhile our grateful thanks we tell,

That, sustained by thee, we now
Bid the parting year farewell !

2 All its numbered days are sped,

All its busy scenes are o'er,
All its joys forever fled,

All its sorrows felt no more.
Mingled with the eternal past,

Its remembrance shall decay ;
Yet to be revived at last,

At the solemn judgment-day.

3 All our follies, Lord, forgive !

Cleanse us from each guilty stain ;
Let thy grace within us live,

That we spend not years in vain.
Then, when life's last eve shall come,

Happy spirits, may we fly
To our everlasting home,

To our Father's house on high !

9 lO New Yeas*. C. M.

OUR Father ! through the coming year
We knowT not what shall be ;
But we would leave, without a fear,
Its ordering all to thee.

2 It may be we shall toil in vain

For what the world holds fair;
And all the good we thought to gain,
Deceive, and prove but care.

3 It may be it shall darkly blend

Our love with anxious fears,
And snatch away the valued friend,
The tried of many years.

4 It may be it shall bring us days

And nights of lingering pain ;

The Old Tear. 597

And bid us take a farewell gaze
Of these loved haunts of men.

5 But calmly, Lord, on thee we rest;
No fears our trust shall move ;
Thou knowest what for each is best,
And thou art Perfect Love.

yivJ The Old Year. C. M.

THE year is gone beyond recall,
With all its hopes and fears,
With all it.- bright and gladdening smiles,
With all its mourner's tears.

2 To thee we come, 0 gracious Lord!
The new-born year to bl

Defend our land from pestilence;
Give peace and plenteousn<

3 From evil deeds that stain the past
We now desire to \\

And pray that ftitui may all

Be .-pent, good Lord ! for thee.

4 0 Father! let thy watchful eve

Still look on us in love,
That we may praise thee year by year,
As angels do above.

5 All dory to 1 1 1 * - Father be ;
All glory to the Son ;

All glory, Holy Ghost ! to thee,
While endless ages run.

920 Psalm «->. €. M.

*Y I AlS by thy strength the mountains stand,
-L ( ;,ui of eternal power !
The sea grows calm at thy command,
And tempests cease to roar.

2 Thy morning light and evening shade
Successive comforts bring ;

598 The Seasons crowned with Goodness.

Thy plenteous fruits make harvest glad ;
Thy flowers adorn the spring.

3 Seasons and times and moons and hours,

Heaven, earth, and air are thine ;
"When clouds distil in fruitful showers,
The author is divine !

4 Thy showers the thirsty furrows fill ;

And ranks of corn appear ;
Thy ways abound with blessings still, —
Thy goodness crowns the year.

y^l Psalm 147. CM.

WITH songs and honors sounding loud,
Address the Lord on high ;
Over the heavens he spreads his cloud,
And waters veil the sky.

2 He sends his showers of blessings down,

To cheer the plains below ;
He makes the grass the mountains crown,
And corn in valleys grow.

3 His steady counsels change the face

Of the declining year ;
He bids the sun cut short his race,
And wintry days appear.

4 His hoary frost, his fleecy snow,

Descend and clothe the ground ;
The liquid streams forbear to flow,
In icy fetters bound.

5 He sends his word, and melts the snow,

The fields no longer mourn ;
He calls the warmer gales to blow,
And bids the spring return.

6 The changing wind, the flying cloud,

Obey his mighty word ;
With songs and honors sounding loud,
Praise ye the sovereign Lord.

The Flight of Time. 599

uLL The Opening Year. CM.

WHEN brighter suns and milder skies
Proclaim the opening year,
"What various sounds of joy arise !
What prospects bright appear !

2 Earth and her thousand voices give

Their thousand notes of praise ;
And all that by his mercy live
To God their offering raise.

3 Thus, like the morning, calm and clear,

That saw the Saviour rise,
The spring of heaven's eternal year
Shall dawn on earth and skies.

4 No winter there, no shades of night,

Obscure those mansions blest,
Where, in the happy fields of light,
The weary are at rest.

\jZ3 The Plight of Time. CM.

rpHEE we adore, Eternal Name!
JL And humbly own to thee
How feeble ia our mortal frame,
What dying worms are we !

2 The year rolls round, and steals away

The breath that first it gave ;
Whate'er we do, whate'er we be,
We're travelling to the grave.

3 Great God ! on what a slender thread

Hang everlasting things!
Th' eternal state of all the dead
Upon life's feeble strings !

4 Infinite joy or endless woe

Attends on every breath ;
And yet, how unconcerned we go
Upon the brink of death !

600 Goodness of Providence.

5 Waken, O Lord, our drowsy sense,
To walk this dangerous road !
And if our souls $re hurried hence,
May they be found with God.

\juQ Goodne§s of Providence. CM,

GOD of our lives ! thy various praise
Our voices shall resound !
Thy hand revolves our fleeting days,
And brings the seasons round.

2 To thee shall daily incense rise,

Our Father and our Friend ;
While daily mercies from the skies
In genial streams descend.

3 In every scene of life, thy care,

In every age we see :
And constant as thy favors are,
So let our praises be.

4 Still may thy love, in every scene,

In every age appear ;
And let the same compassion deign
To bless the opening year.

5 If mercy smile, let mercy bring

Our wandering souls to God :
And in affliction we shall sing,
If thou wilt bless the rod.

yZO The Xew Year. !L. M.

GREAT God ! we sing that mighty hand
By which supported still we stand ;
The opening year thy mercy shows ;
Let mercy crown it till it close.

2 By day, by night, at home, abroad,
Still we are guarded by our God ;
By his incessant bounty fed,
By his unerring counsel led.

Thanksgiving. 601

i With grateful hearts the past we own ;
The future, all to us unknown,
We to thy guardian care commit,
And peaceful leave before thy feet.

1 In scenes exalted or depressed,
Be thou our joy, and thou our rest;
Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,
Adored through all our changing days.

5 When death shall interrupt our songs,
And seal in silence mortal tongues,
Our Helper, God, in whom we trust,
In better worlds our souls shall boast.

Thanksgiving. I,. M.

926

ETERNAL Source of every joy!
Well may thy praise our lips employ,
While in thy temple we appear,
Whose goodness crowns the circling year.

Wide as the wheels of nature roll,
Thy hand supports and guides the whole;
The sun is taught by thee to rise,
And darkness when to veil the skies*.

The flowery spring, at thy command,
Embalms the air, and paints the land;
The summer rays with vigor shine,
To raise the corn and cheer the vine.

4 Thy hand in autumn richly pours
Through all our coasts redundant stores ;
And winters, softened by thy care,

No more a face of horror wear.

5 Seasons and months and weeks and days
Demand successive songs of praise ;
Still be the cheerful homage paid,
With opening light and evening shade.

602 Thanksgiving.

\5lil Thanksgiving. Ij.M*

OUR Helper, God ! we bless thy name,
The same thy power, thy grace the same;
The tokens of thy loving care
Open and crown and close the year.

2 Amid ten thousand snares we stand,
Supported by thy guardian hand ;
And see, when we survey our ways,
Ten thousand monuments of praise.

3 Thus far thine arm hath led us on ;
Thus far we make thy mercy known ;
And while we tread this desert land,
New mercies shall new songs demand.

4 Our grateful souls on Jordan's shore
Shall raise one sacred pillar more ;
Then bear, in thy bright courts above,
Inscriptions of immortal love.

\j UU Thanksgiving.

PRAISE to God, immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days !
Bounteous source of every joy,
Let thy praise our tongues employ !

2 For the blessings of the field,
For the stores the gardens yield,
For the joy which harvests bring,
Grateful praises now we sing.

3 Clouds that drop refreshing dews ;
Suns that genial heat diffuse ;
Flocks that whiten all the plain ;
Yellow sheaves of ripened grain ;

4 All that Spring, with bounteous hand,
Scatters o'er the smiling land ;
All that liberal Autumn pours
From her overflowing stores ;

Thanksgiving and Fast- day Hymns. 603

5 These, great God, to thee we owe,
Source whence all our blessings flow;
And, for these, our souls shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise.

U\J New Year. T^anlisg-iving*. 7s.

FOR thy mercy and thy grace,
Constant through another year,
Hear our song of thankfulness;
Jesus, our Redeemer! hear.

2 In our weakness and distr<

Rock of Strength! be thou our stay ;
In the pathless wilderm

Be our true and living way.

3 AVI 10 of us death's awful road

In the coming war shall tread, —
With thy rod and Btaff, 0 Lord!
Comforl thou his dying-bed.

4 Make as faithful, make us pure!

Keep us evermore thine own ;
Help thy servants to endure ;
Fit us for the promised crown.

5 Bo within thy palace-gate
We shall praise, on golden strings,

Thee, the only Potentaf

V' .

Lord of lords! and King of kings!

yJU Fast.— Psalm 60. Ts.

WHY, 0 God! thy people spurn?
Why permit thy wrath to burn?
God of mercy ! turn once more,
All our broken hearts restore.

2 Thou hast made our land to quake,
Heal the sorrows thou dost make;
Bitter is the cup we drink,
Suffer not our souls to sink.

6 04 Thanksgiving.

3 Be thy banner now unfurled,
Show thy truth to all the world ;
Save us, Lord, we cry to thee,
Lift thine arm, thy chosen free.

4 Give us now relief from pain, —
Human aid is all in vain :

We, through God, shall yet prevail,
He will help, when foes assail.

931

Harvest-Hymn. 7s Double.

COME, ye thankful people ! come,
liaise the song of Harvest-Home !
All is safely gathered in
Ere the winter storms begin ;
God our Maker doth provide
For our wants to be supplied ;
Come to God's own temple, come !
Raise the song of Harvest-Home !

2 We ourselves are God's own field,
Fruit unto his praise we yield ;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown,
First the blade and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear :
Grant, O Harvest Lord, that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.

3 For the Lord our God shall come
And shall take his harvest home ;
From his field shall, in that day,
All offences purge away ;
Give his angels charge, at last,
In the fire the tares to cast ;
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.

4 Then, thou Church triumphant ! come,
Raise the song of Harvest-Home !
All are safely gathered in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin,

The Nation. 605

There forever, purified,
In God's garner to abide :
Come, ten thousand angels, come,
Raise the glorious Harvest-Home !

o

)32 Tlie Holy Nation. *" M* 61-

HAPPY nation ! where the Lord
Reveals the treasures of his word,
And builds his Church, hia earthly throne;
His eye the heathen world surveys,
He formed their hearts he knows their ways:
But God, their Maker, is unknown,

5 The eye of thy compassion, Lord,
D0(. secure defenc ■ afford

When death or dangers threatening stand;

Thy watchful eye pr< the just

Who make thy name their fear and trust,
When wars or famine waste the land.

i In sickness or the bl ly field,

Thou our physician, thou our Bhield,
Bend us Balvation from thy throne:
We wail • shine;

Let us rejoice in help divine,
For all our bop I alone.

933 Thftiiksuiviim. I,. JI.6I.

WITH grateful hearts, with joyful
tong
To God we raise united songs;

His power and mercy we proclaim.
Our Union bless, and make us own
Jehovah here has fix< d his throne.
And triumph in his mighty name.

Long as the moon her course shall run,
Or men behold the circling sun,

Within our borders hold thy reign;

606 For Those on the Sea.

Crown our just counsels with success,
With truth and peace our nation bless,
And all thy sacred rights maintain.

U OHt For Those in Perils of Waters. T,. M. 61,

ETERNAL Father ! strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless
wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep ;
Oh, hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea!

2 O Christ! whose voice the waters heard,
And hushed their raging at thy word,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us wThen we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea !

3 Most Holy Spirit ! who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace ;
Oh, hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea!

4 O Trinity of love and power!
Our brethren shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go.
Thus evermore shall rise to thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

uOO Our Pilgrim Fathers. L.. 31.

OGOD, beneath thy guiding hand,
Our exiled fathers crossed the sea ;
And when they trod the wintry strand,
With prayer and psalm they worshipped
thee.

Historic and National. 607

Thou heard'st, well-pleased, the song, the
prayer —

Thy blessing came ; and still its power
Shall onward, through all ages, bear

The memory of that holy hour.

Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God
Came with those exiles o'er the waves,

And where their pilgrim feet have trod,
The God they trusted guards their graves.

[ And here thy name, O God of love,
Their children's children shall adore,
Till these eternal hills remove,

And spring adorns the earth no more.

jO\) Slavery and Oppression. L.. M.

OHOLY Father! just and true
Are all thy works and words and ways,
And unto thee alone are due

Thanksgiving and eternal praise!

2 As children of thy gracious care,
We veil the eye, we bend the knee,

With broken words of praise and prayer,
Father and God, we come to thee.

3 For thou hast heard, O God of right!
The sighing of the hapless slave ;

And stretched for him the arm of might,
Not shortened that it could not save.

4 Speed on thy work, Lord God of hosts!

And when the bondsman's chain is riven,
And swells from all our country's coasts
The anthem of the free to heaven,

5 Oh, not to those whom thou hast led,

As with thy cloud and fire before,
But unto thee in fear and dread,
Be praise and glory evermore.

608 National Blessings.

vj O / Thanksgiving-. I*.

GEE AT God of nations! now to thee
Our hymn of gratitude we raise ;
With humble heart and bending knee,
We offer thee our song of praise.

2 Thy name we bless, Almighty God!

For all the kindness thou hast shown
To this fair land the pilgrims trod, —
This land we fondly call our own.

3 Here Freedom spreads her banner wide,

And casts her soft and hallowed ray:
Here, thou our fathers' steps didst guide
In safety, through their dangerous way.

4 We praise thee, that the gospel's light,

Through all our land, its radiance sheds,
Dispels the shades of error's night,

And heavenly blessings round us spreads.

UOO The Providence of God over Xations. Xi. M.

GREAT God ! beneath whose piercing eye
The earth's extended kingdoms lie ;
Whose favoring smile upholds them all,
W hose anger smites them, and they fall ; —

2 Thy kindness to our fathers shown,
Their children's children long shall own ;
To thee, with grateful hearts, shall raise
The tribute of exulting praise.

3 Upheld by thine unfailing aid,
Secure, the paths of life we tread ;
And, freely as the vital air,

Thy first and noblest bounties share.

4 Great God, our guardian, guide, and friend !
Oh, still thy sheltering arm extend ;
Preserved by thee for ages past,
For ages let thy kindness last I

Prayer for Peace. bog

l Ou Fasting and Prayer. L,. M.

1 TT7HILE o'er our guilty land, 0 Lord,
▼ V We view the terrors of thy sword;
Oh, whither shall the hopeless fly?
To whom but thee direct their cry?

On thee, our guardian God, we call,
Before thy throne of grace we fall ;
And is there no deliverance there ?
And must we perish in despair?

See, we repent, we weep, we mourn,

To our forsaken God we turn ;

Oh, spare our guilty country, spare

The church, which thou hast planted here !

f^tU A Prayer against Public Enemies. T,. JK.

OTHOU preserver of mankind, [God!
Our hope, our shield, our strength, our
Thou hast an ear to prayer inclined;
Our cries have reached thy dread abode.

Our cause thy justice will maintain,

Avenge fch oppressed and guard the poor:

Ne'er shall thy children ask in vain,

And our proud 1'oes shall boast no more.

Their banded hosts shall fly, or fall;

A shaking leaf their thousands chase;
Our Qod shall hear our nation's call ;

We shall be saved, and sing his praise.

U^tl Prayer for Peaee. Ii. M.

THY footsteps, Lord, with joy we trace,
And mark the conquest of thy grace ;
Complete the work thou hast begun,
And let thy will on earth be done.

2 Oh, show thyself the Prince of peace ;
Command the din of war to cease
Oh, bid contending nations rest,
And let thy love rule every breast !
39

6 10 Prayer for Seamen,

3 Then peace returns with balmy wing ;
Glad plenty laughs, the valleys sing ;
Reviving commerce lifts her head,
And want and woe and hate have fled.

4 Thou good and wise and righteous Lord,
All move subservient to thy word ;
Oh, soon let every nation prove
The perfect joy of Christian love!

942 Peace. T,.

GREAT God, whom heaven and earth and
sea,
With all their countless hosts obey,
Upheld by thee the nations stand,
And empires fall at thy command.

2 Oh, show thyself the Prince of peace,
Command the din of war to cease ;
With sacred love the world inspire,
And burn its chariots in the fire.

3 In sunder break each warlike spear,
Let all the Saviour's ensigns wear ;
The universal Sabbath prove,
The perfect rest of Christian love !

U 4tO Prayer for Seamen, Ii. Mm

WHILE o'er the deep thy servants sail,
Send thou, O Lord, the prosperous gale;
And on their hearts, where'er they go,
Oh, let thy heavenly breezes blow.

2 If on the morning's wings they fly,
They will not pass beyond thine eye ;

The wanderer's prayer thou bend'st to hear,
And faith exults to know thee near.

3 When tempests rock the groaning bark,
Oh, hide them safe in Jesus' ark!
When in the tempting port they ride,
Oh, keep them safe at Jesus' side !

Our Native Land. 6 1 1

1/44: Prayer for our Xative Land. C. M.

LORD ! while for all mankind we pray,
Of every clime and coast,
Oh, hear us for our native land, — ■
The land we love the most.

2 Our fathers' sepulchres are here,
And here our kindred dwell ;

Our children, too ; how should we love
Another land so well ?

3 Oh, guard our shores from every foe,

With peace our borders bless ;
With prosperous times our cities crown,
Our fields with plenteousness.

4 Unite us in the sacred love

Of knowledge, truth, and Thee;
And let our hills and valleys shout
The songs of liberty.

5 Lord of the nations! thus to thee

Our country we commend ;
Be thou her Refuge and her Trust,
Her everlasting Friend !

945 Our Conntry. C. M.

IN thee, Great God ! with songs of praise,
Our favored States rejoice ;
And, blest with thy salvation, raise
To heaven their cheerful voice.

2 Thy sure defence through nations round

Hath spread our rising name,
And hath our weak beginnings crowned
With freedom and with fame.

3 In deep distress our injured land

Implored thy power to save ;
For life we prayed ; thy bounteous hand
The timely blessing gave.

6l2 Confession of Sin.

4 On thee, when perils rise again,

Our hearts alone rely ;
Our rights thy mercy will maintain,
And all our wants supply.

5 Thus, Lord ! thy wondrous power declare,

And still exalt thy fame ;
While we glad songs of praise prepare
For thine almighty name.

y^D Fasting and Prayer. C. M.

< EE, gracious God ! before thy throne

s

Thy mourning people bend ;
'Tis on thy sovereign grace alone
Our humble hopes depend.

2 Dark, frowning judgments from thy hand

Thy dreadful power display;
Yet mercy spares this guilty land,
And still we live to pray.

3 How changed, alas! are truths divine,

For error, guilt, and shame !
What impious numbers, bold in sin,
Disgrace the Christian name !

4 Oh, turn us, turn us, mighty Lord,

By thy resistless grace ;
Then shall our hearts obey thy word,
And humbly seek thy face.

O A H " Our Fathers have told ns."

t7 Hi I Psalm 44. C. M.

OLORD, our fathers oft have told,
In our attentive ears,
Thy wonders in their days performed,
And elder times than theirs.

2 For not their courage, nor their sword
To them salvation gave ;
Nor strength that from unequal force
Their fainting troops could save.

The God of Jacob. 613

3 But thy right hand and powerful arm,

Whose succor they implored ;

Thy presence with the chosen race,

Who thy great name adored.

4 As thee, their God, our fathers owned,

Thou art our sovereign King ;
Oh, therefore, as thou didst to them,
To us deliverance bring!

5 To thee the triumph we ascribe,

From whom the conquest came ;
In God we will rejoice all day,
And ever bless thy name.

948 Psalm 114. C.M.

WHEN forth from Egypt's trembling
strand
The tribes of Israel sped,
And Jacob, in the stranger's land,
Departing banners spread;—

2 Then One, amid their thick array,
His kingly dwelling made,

And all along the desert way

Their guiding sceptre swayed.

3 The sea beheld, and struck with dread,
Rolled all its billows back :

And Jordan through his deepest bed,
Revealed their destined track.

4 What ailed thee, 0 thou mighty sea,
And rolled thy waves 111 dread I

What bade thy tide, O Jordan, nee,
And bare its deepest bed ?

5 O earth, before the Lord, the God
Of Jacob, tremble still ;

Who makes the waste a watered sod,
The flint a gushing rill.

6 14 Temperance.

&

c/4:y God of our Fatliers. C. M.

i_OD of our fathers, to thy throne
Our grateful songs we raise,
Thou art our God, and thou alone, — -
Accept our humble praise.

2 Unnumbered benefits from thee

Are showered upon our land ;
Behold ! through all our coasts we see
The bounties of thy hand,

3 Here thou wert once the pilgrims' guide ;

Thou gav'st them here a place,
Where freedom spreads its blessings wide
O'er all their favored race.

4 Here, Lord, thy gospel's holy light

Is shed on all our hills ;
And, like the rains and dews of night,
Celestial grace distils.

5 Still teach us, Lord, thy name to fear,

And still our guardian be ;
Oh, let our children's children here
Forever worship thee.

yOU Temperance. S. M.

MOURN for the thousands slain,
The youthful and the strong ;
Mourn for the wine-cup's fearful reign,
And the deluded throng.

2 Mourn for the tarnished gem,

For reason's light divine,
Quenched from the soul's bright diadem,
Where God had bid it shine.

3 Mourn for the ruined soul, —

Eternal life and light
Lost by the fiery, maddening bowl,
And turned to helpless night.

Our Country. 615

4 Mourn for the lost, — but call,

Call to the strong, the free ;
Rouse them to shun that dreadful fall,
And to the refuge flee.

5 Mourn for the lost,— but pray,

Pray to our God above,
To break the fell destroyer's sway
And show his saving love.

« God Save tlie State P» 6s «fc 4su

GOD bless our native land !
Firm may she ever stand,
Through storm and night ;
When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of winds and wave,
Do thou our country save
By thy great might.

2 For her our prayer shall rise
To God above the skies ;

On him we wait ;
Thou who art ever nigh,
Guarding with watchful eye,
To thee aloud we cry,

God save the State

)2 Tlic Voice of National Joy. 6s & 4s,

MY country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing :
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrim's pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring !

2 My native country, thee, —
Land of the noble free, —
Thy name I love :

616 Family Worship.

I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills ;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.

3 Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees

Sweet freedom's song !
Let mortal tongues awake ;
Let all that breathe partake ;
Let rocks their silence break, —

The sound prolong !

4 Our fathers' God! to thee, %
Author of liberty,

To thee we sing!
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light ;
Protect us by thy might,

Great God, our King !

Doxology.

TO the great One in Three,
The highest praises be,
Hence evermore ;
His sovereign majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore.

kjDO Family Worship. !L. M.

FATHER of men ! thy care we bless,
Which crowns our families with peace.
From thee they sprung, and by thy hand
Their root and branches are sustained.

2 To God, most worthy to be praised,
Be our domestic altars raised,
Who, Lord of heaven, scorns not to dwell
With saints in their obscurest cell.

Family Worship. 617

To thee may each united house,
Morning and night, present its vows;
Our servants here and rising race
Be taught thy precepts and thy grace.

1 Oh, may each future age proclaim
The honors of thy glorious name ;
While, pleased and thankful, we remove
To join the family above.

954 AnEveniiiffHymii. 1*1*.

GREAT God ! to thee my evening song
With humble gratitude I raise;
Oh, let thy mercy tune my tongue,
And till my heart with lively praise.

2 My days unclouded as they pa

And every gentle, rolling hour,
Are monuments of wondrous grace,
And witness to thy love and power.

3 And yet this thoughtless, wretched heart,

Too oft regardless of thy love,
Ungrateful, can from thee depart,
And, fond of trifles, vainly rove.

4 Seal my forgiveness in the blood

Of Jesus; his dear name alone
,1 plead for pardon, gracious God!
And kind acceptance at thy throne.

5 Let this blest hope mine eyelids close,

With sleep refresh my feeble irame ;
Safe in thy care may 1 repose,

And wake with praises to thy name.

955 Prayer for Children. &■ **•

DEAR Saviour, if these lambs should
stray ,

From thy secure enclosure s bound,

618 The Christian Home.

And, lured by worldly joys away,

Among the thoughtless 'crowd be found,—

2 Eemember still that they are thine,

That thy dear sacred name they bear;
Think that the seal of love divine,
The sign of cov'nant grace they wear.

3 In all their erring, sinful years,

Oh, let them ne'er forgotten be!
Eemember all the prayers and tears
Which made them consecrate to thee.

4 And when these lips no more can pray,

These eyes can weep for them no more,
I urn thou their feet from folly's way;
The wanderers to thy fold restore.

.Doxolog'y.

T)RAISE God, from whom all blessings flow
f- Praise him, all creatures here below;
-Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

y O D The Happy Home. €. ^

TTAPPY the home, when God is there,
-^ And love fills every breast;
Where one their wish, and one their prayer
And one their heavenly rest.

2 Happy the home where Jesus' name

Is sweet to every ear ;
Where children early lisp his fame,
And parents hold him dear.

3 Happy the home where prayer is heard,

And praise is wont to rise;
Where parents love the sacred word,
And live but for the skies.

Early Piety. 619

Lord ! let us in our homes agree

This blessed peace to gain ;
Unite our hearts in love to thee,

And love to all will reign.

0 / Psalm 78. C. M.

LET children hear the mighty deeds
Which God performed of old, —
Which in our younger years we saw,
And which our fathers told.

He bids us make bis glories known,
His works of power and grace;

And we'll convey his wonders down
Through every rising race.

3 Our lips shall tell them to our sons,
And they again to theirs,

That generations yet unborn
May teach them to their heirs.

4 Thus they shall learn, in God alone

Their hope securely stands,
That they may ne'er forget his works,
But practise his commands.

JOO Early Piety. C. M.

GRACE is a plant, where'er it grows,
Of pure and heavenly root ;
But fairest in the youngest shows,
And yields tie l\ fruit

2 Ye careless ones, betimes obey

The voice of sovereign love!
Ye rove in lolly's dangerous way,
But mercy reigns above.

3 For you the public prayer is made,

Oh, join the public prayer!

For you the secret tear is shed,

Oh, shed yourselves a tear!

620 Children in Heaven.

ybc/ Family Worship. CM.

I

ORD of all families below,

To thee our prayers we send ;
Do thou from danger, and from woe,
Our dwelling-place defend.

2 Here let thy peace, O Father, rest,

Here let thy love abide!
Our every joy in thee more blest,
Each sorrow sanctified.

3 Teach us, with hearts made one in love,

To do thy pure commands ;
And give us, in thy time, above,
A house not made with hands.

ybO "Suffer little Children." C. M.

ABOUND the throne of God in heaven
Thousands of children stand, —
Children, whose sins are all forgiven,
A holy, happy band.

2 What brought them to that world above,

That heaven so bright and fair,

Where all is peace and joy and love?

How came those children there?

3 Because the Saviour shed his blood

To wash away their sin :
Bathed in that pure and precious flood,
Behold them white and clean.

4 On earth they sought their Saviour's grace,

On earth they loved his name :
So now they see his blessed face,
And stand before the Lamb.

b/ 0 1 Family Evening Hymn. C. M.

LORD of the world, who hast preserved
Us safely through this day,

Marriage.

Now guard us in the silent night,
Ana m all time, we pray !

2 Be present, in thy peace, to those

Who as thy suppliants wait ;
Blot out the record of our sin ;
Our gloom illuminate !

3 Let not, amid our hours of sleep,

Life's enemy steal in ;
Let not a vision of the night
Have power to whisper sin.

4 Guard every avenue from guile,

When slumber seals our eyes;
And guiltless as we laid us down,
So guiltless let us rise.

621

962

Harrftage. S. M*

YES, welcome was the call,
And Bweet the festal lay,
When Jesus deigned in (ana's hall
To bless the marriage day.

And happy was the bride,
And glad the bridegroom's heart,

For He who tarried at their side
Bade grief and ill depart.

() Lord of life and love,

( !ome thou again to-day ;
And bring a blessing from above

That ne'er shall pass away.

Oh, bless, as erst of old,

The bridegroom and the bride;
Bless with the holier stream that flowed
Forth from thy pierced side.

Before thine altar-throne

This mercy we implore;
As thou dost knit them, Lord, in one,

So bless them evermore.

622 Songs of Children.

U UO Great Shepherd of the Sheep.

GREAT Shepherd of the Sheep,
Who all thy flock dost keep,
Leading by waters calm ;
Do thou my footsteps guide,
To follow by thy side : —
Make me thy little Lamb.

2 I fear I may be torn

By many a sharp-set thorn,
As far from thee I stray ;
My weary feet may bleed,
For rough are paths which lead
Out of thy pleasant way.

3 But when the road is long,
Thy tender arm, and strong,

The weary one will bear ;
And thou wilt wash me clean,
And lead to pastures green,

Where all the flowTers are fair.

4 Till, from the soil of sin
Cleansed and made pure within,

Dear Saviour, whose I am,
Thou bringest me in love,
To thy sweet fold above,

A little snow-white lamb.

964

Oentle Shepherd.

!

GENTLE Shepherd, grant thy blessing
On us now,
While before thy throne we bow.

Gentle Shepherd, we thy children

Seek thy face:
Give us now thy heavenly grace.

Gentle Shepherd, bless the children

Of this fold:
Cleanse the hearts of young and old.

Songs of Children. 623

4 Gentle Shepherd, when life's ended,
Take us home,
Never from thy side to roam.

965

A LL glory, laud, and honor,
-£^- To thee, Redeemer, King !
To whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
Glory to Jesus,

Our gracious King :
Glory to Jesus !
We will ever sing.

2 The company of angels

Are praising thee 00 high,

And mortal men, and all things
( Ireated make reply.
Chorus.

3 The people of the Hebrews,

With psalms before thee went;
Our praise and prayer and anthems
Before thee we present.
Chorus.

4 Thou didst accept their praises :

Accept the prayers we bring,
Who in all good delightest,

Thou good and gracious King.

Chorus,

966

JESUS, tender Saviour !
Hast thou died for me ?
Make me very thankful,
In my heart, to thee.

2 When the sad, sad story
Of thy grief I read,

624 Songs of Children.

For my sins, oh, make me
Penitent indeed.

3 Soon I hope, in glory,
At thy side to stand ;
Make me fit to meet thee,
In that happy land.

967

7s.

CHILDREN'S voices high in heaven
Make sweet music round the throne ;
Them the King of kings hath given

Glory lasting as his own.
Lord ! it was thy mercy free
Suffered them to come to thee.

We would think of them to-day,

And their everlasting song ;
We wTould sing as blest as they,

In the spirit-land, erelong ;
Lord ! let us thy children be;
Suffer us to come to thee.

Now to come, with loving mind,
Simple faith, and earnest prayer,

Seeking thy dear cross, to find
Full and free salvation there.

Lamb of God ! our Saviour be ;

Suffer us to come to thee.

Lord, we come ! be thou our guide

Through life's dark and troubled way ;

And, when trained and sanctified,
Raise us to the perfect day ;

Then in heaven thy words shall be,

" Suffer them to come to me."

968

^NCE was heard the song of children
By the Saviour when on earth ;

O'

Shall we gather at the River. 625

Joyful in the sacred temple

Shouts of youthful praise had birth,

And hosannas
Loud to David's Son broke forth.

; 2 Palms of victory strewn around him,
Garments spread beneath his feet,
Prophet of the Lord they crowned him,
In fair Salem's crowded street,

While hosannas
From the lips of children greet.

3 Blessed Saviour, now triumphant,

Glorified and throned on high,
Mortal lays, from man or infant,
Vain to tell thy praise essay ;

But hosannas
Swell the chorus of the sky.

4 God o'er all in heaven reigning,

We this day thy glory sing;
Not with palms thy pathway strewing,
We would loftier tribute bring, —

Glad hosannas
To our Prophet, Priest, and King.

69

SHALL we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod,
With its crystal tide forever

Flowing by the throne of God ?
Yes, we'll gather at the river,

The beautiful, the beautiful river,-—
Gather with the saints at the river,
That flows by the throne of God.

2 On the margin of the river,
Washing up its silver spray,
We will walk and worship ever,
All the happy golden day.
Chorus.

40

626 The Dark Valley before us.

3 Ere we reach the shining river,
Lay we every burden down
Grace our spirits will deliver,
And provide a harp and crown.
Chorus.

y/U The Dar It Valley before us.

BEFORE us lies a valley dim,
Which soon our feet may tread ;
And through it rolls a sullen stream,
The river of the dead.
We're almost down to the river-side,

Soon shall our wand'rings cease ;
If Jesus himself will be our guide,
We shall walk thro' the valley in peace.

2 Though dark the vale and cold the stream,

It cannot us affright ;

For Christ hath passed through the valley

To the home of joy and light. [dim,

Chorus.

3 Though death's dark shades around may h$,

My Shepherd still is near ;
His rod and staff shall comfort me,
No evil shall I fear.
Chorus.

4 Baptized beneath death's chilling flood,

In glory shall we rise,
To meet the conquering Son of God,
Descending from the skies.
Chorus.

971

COME to me ! come to me !
All for sin oppressed ;
All ye that toil, all ye that mourn,

And I will give you rest.
We come, we come, to taste thy grace.
So full, so rich, so free ;

Children's Prayer. 627

O Thou, the way, the truth, the life !
Behold, we come to thee.

2 Come to me ! come to me !
Seek my sheltering breast ;

My yoke is sweet, my burden light,
And I will give you rest.
Chorus.

3 Come to me ! come to me !
And ye shall be blest ;

For full of grace and truth am I,
And I will give you rest.
Chorus.

4 Come to me ! come to me !
Jesus cries to me !

O Saviour dear, thy voice I hear,
And gladly come to thee.
Chorus.

m

OHOLY Saviour, pray for me,
While far from heaven and thee;
I wander in a fragile hark,

O'er life's tempestuous sea.
Then, holy Saviour, from thy throne,

So bright in bliss above,
Protect thy child in virtue's path,
With thy bright smile of love.
O Saviour dear, remember me,

And never cease thy care,
Till in the realms above the sky,
Thy love and bliss I share.

When rude temptations try my heart,
And pleasure spreads a snare;

Thy loving aid shall heal the smart,
And show a Shepherd's care.

Vain should each earthly prospect prove,
Still will I ne'er despair ;

628 Children's Prayer.

But trust me to a Saviour's love,
And feel a Saviour's care.
Chorus.

973

|EAK Jesus, ever at my side,
How loving thou must be,
To leave thy home in heaven, to guard

A little child like me.
Thy Beautiful and shining face

I see not, though so near ;
The sweetness of thy soft low voice
I am too deaf to hear.

O Saviour dear, remember me,

And never cease thy care,
Till in the realms above the sky,
Thy love and bliss I share.

2 I cannot feel thee touch my hand

With pressure light and mild,
To check me, as my mother did,

When I was but a child.
But I have felt thee in my thoughts,

Fighting with sin for me ;
And when my heart loves God, I know

The sweetness is from thee.
Chorus.

3 And when, dear Saviour, I kneel down,

Morning and night, to prayer,
Something there is within my heart

Which tells me thou art there.
Yes! when I pray, thou prayest too —

Thy prayer is all for me ;
But when I sleep, thou sleepest not,

But watchest patiently.
Chorus.

974

Flee as a Bird.

FLEE as a bird to your mountain,
Thou who art weary of sin ;

Christ the Sinner's Rest, 629

Go to the clear flowing fountain,

Where you may wash and be clean.
Fly, for th' avenger is near thee ;
Call, and the Saviour will hear thee;
He on his bosom will bear thee, —
O thou who art weary of sin.

2 He will protect thee forever,

Wipe ev tear,

He will forsake the ■, oh, never,

Cherished so tenderly there;
Haste, then, th now are flying;

Spend not the moments in sighing;
( lease from ;
The Saviour will v, ar.

3 Come, then, to by Saviour,

He will red >m sin ;
Bless with a

.Make thee all gl >rious within:

Call, for the Saviour is q< ar th
Waiting in mere

And by his pr< r thee,

O thou, who art w< in.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF HYMNS.

A broken heart, my God, my King, Watts.

A charge to keep I have, Wesley.

A few more years shall roll, Bonar.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Coicper.

A mighty fortress is our God, Luther.

A mother may forgetful be, Mrs. Steele.

A stranger in a barren land, E. P. Parker.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide,

Lute.

According to thy gracious word, Montgomery.

Again our earthly cares we leave, Anon.

Ah! how shall fallen man, Watts.

Alas, and did my Saviour bleed, Watts.

Alas, what hourly dangers rise, Mrs. Steele.

All glory, laud, and honor, Anon.

All hail the power of Jesus' name, JDwieatt.

All is dying, hearts arc breaking, Anon.

All praise to thee, eternal Lord, Luther.

Almighty God, thy word i> , Anon.

Almighty Maker of my frame, Mrs.

Along my earthly way, Edmetton,

Always with us, always with us, 2lfi rin.

Am I a soldier of the cross, Watts.
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, A. Wton.

Amid the splendors of Ihv state, Pratt's (oil.

Amidst thy wrath remember love, Watts,

And am I born to die, Luth. Coll.

And dost thou sav, ask what thou wilt, Anon.

And must this body die. Wafts.

And will the great eternal God, Doddridge.

And will the Judge descend, Dochlrirfrje.

And wilt thou now forsake me, Lord, Anon.

Another hand is beckoning us, Wki'firr.

Another six days' work i.; done, Stcnnctt.

Approach, my soul, the mercy seat, X< wton.
Arise, my soul, arise.

Arise, my soul, my .joyful powers, Watts.

Arise, O King of grace, arise, Waits.

334
574
604

93
392
737
345

77
731

28
256
353
4G0
905
207
570
156

97
825
562
535
626
269
118
462
871
GM
852
774
872
470
846

42
687
276
418
716

632 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

Arise, ye saints, arise, Anon. 616

Around the Saviour's lofty throne, Kelly. 217

Around the throne of God in heaven, Anon. 900

As pants the hart for cooling streams, Anon. 451

As the hart with eager looks, Montgomery. 524

As when the weary traveller gains, Newton. 630

As with gladness men of old, Anon. 168

Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, Mrs. Maclcay. 828

At thy command, our dearest Lord, Watts. 750

Awake, and sing the song, Hammond. 203

Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve, Doddridge. G25
Awake, our souls, away our fears, Watts. G24

Awaked by Sinai's awful sound, Occum. 380

Awhile they rest within the tomb, Anon. 835

Be thou exalted, O my God I Watts. 100

Before Jehovah's awful throne, Watts. 127

Before us lies a valley dim, H. L. Hastings. 970

Behold a Stranger at the door, Gregg. 283

Behold the glories of the Lamb, Watts. 201

Behold the Lamb of God, Monk's Coll. 178

Behold the throne of grace, Keicton. 694

Behold the way to Zion's hill, Kelly. 789

Behold, what wondrous grace, Watts. 397

Bless, O my soul, the living God, Watts. 151

Blessed are the sons of God, Humphries. 490

Blessed fountain, full of grace, Kelly. 521

Blessed Saviour, thee I leve, Duffield. 488

Blest are the pure in heart, Anon. 567

Blest are the sons of peace, Watts. 660

Blest are the souls that hear and know, Watts. 94
Blest be the tie that binds, Fawcett. G61

Blest Comforter divine, Anon. 232

Blest feast of love divine, Anon. 758

Blest hour when mortal man retires, Baffles. 686

Blest is the man whose softening, L. Barbauld. 666
Blest morning whose young dawning rays, Watts. 35
Blow ye the trumpet, blow, Toplady. 274

Bread of heaven, on thee we feed, Conder. 741

Brief life is here our portion, Dr. Neale. 913

Bright King of glory, dreadful God, Watts. 216

Bright source of everlasting love, Anon. 663

Brightest and best of the sons of the, Heber. 164

Broad is the road that leads to death, Watts. 245

Brother, though from yonder sky, Bancroft. 866

Burdened with guilt wouldst thou be blest, Anon. 323
By cool Siioam's shady rill, Heber. 762

Alphabetical Index of Hymns, 633

Call Jehovah thy salvation, Montgomery. 508

Calm on the Listening ear of night, Sears. 160

Can sinners hope for heaven, Anon. 252

Cast thy burden on the Lord, Anon. 575

Cease, cease, ye vain desponding fears, Bvight. 833

Cease, ye mourners, cease to languish, Collyer. 859

Child of sin and sorrow, Hastings. 330

Children of God, who, faint and slow, Bowdler. 502

Children of the heavenly King, Cennick. 611

Children's voices high in heaven. Anon, f 67

Christ and his cross are all our theme, Watts. 271

Christ is made the sure foundation, Anon. 708

Christ, of all my hopes the ground, Windham. 551

Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Cudworth. 101

Christ, whose glory fills the skies, TopJacly. 489

Christ will gather in his own, Moravian. 865

Christian brethren, ere we part, Anon. 55

Come at the morning hour, Briggs' Coil. 689

Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell, Watts. 711

Come, divine and peaceful guest, Anon. 147

Come, every pious heart, Stinnett. 272

Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove, Browne. 224

Come, nappy souls, approach your God, Watts. 287

Come hither, all ye weary souls. Watts. 284

Come, Holy Spirit, calm my mind, Barrier. 221

Come, Holy Spirit, come, Hart. 234

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, Watts. 221

Come in, thou blessed of our God, Montgomery. 757

Come, Jesus, Redeemer, abide thou, Bay Palmer. COO

Come, kingdom of our Qod, Johns. 775

Come, let us join our cheerful songs, Watts. 209

Come, let us join our souls to God, Doririririge. 767

Come, let us lift our joyful eves. Watts. 263

Come, let us sing the song ofsongs, Montgomery. 218

Come, my soul, thy suit prepare, -V- irton . 701

Come,0 my soul, in sacred lays, Blaclioek. 104

Come, O thou traveller unknown, Wesley. 513

Come, said Jesus' sacred voice, B. Barbeiulri. 309

Come, sinner, to the gospel feast, Huntingdon. 29G

Come, sound his praise abroad, Watts. 131

Come, thou Almighty King. Marian. 239

Come, thou desire of all thy saints, Mrs. Steele. 46

Come, thou fount of every blessing, Bobinson. 507

Come to me, come to me, E. P. Parker. 071

Come to the house of prayer, Taylor. 6UI

Come to the land of peace, Anon. 306

Come, trembling sinner, in whose breast, Jones. 291

634 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

Come unto me when shadows darkly, Anon. 584

Come, wandering sheep, O come, Anon. 384

Come, weary souls, with sin distressed, Mrs. Steele. 281

Come, ye disconsolate, Moore. 326

Come, ye souls by sin afflicted, Swain. 320

Come, ye thankful people, come, Alford. 931

Come, ye that love the Lord, Watts. 494

Come, ye that love the Saviour's, Mrs. Steele. 478

Come, ye weary souls oppressed, Anon. 310

Creator, Spirit, by whose aid, Dryden's Trans. 226

Crown Ids head with endless blessing, Anon. 211

Daughter of Zion, from the dust, Montgomery. 799

Day of anger, that dread day, Celano, by Afford. 879

Day of judgment, day of wonders, Newton. 882

Dear as thou wert, and justly dear, Dale. 849

Dear Father, to thy mercy seat, • Mrs, Steele. 678

Dear Jesus, ever at my side, Faber. 973

Dear is the spot where Christians sleep, Anon. 837

Dear Lord, amid the throng that pressed, Anon. 539

Dear Refuge of my weary soul, Mrs. Steele. 674

Dear Saviour, if these Lambs should stray, Anon. 955

Dear Saviour, we are thine, Doddridge. 492

Dear Saviour, when my thoughts, Mrs. Steele. 354

Dearest of all the names above, Watts. 516

Death is no more among our foes, Medley. 875

Deep are the wounds which sin has, Mrs. Steele. 247

Depth of mercy, can there be, Wesley. 363

Did Christ o'er sinners weep, Beddome. 4?5

Didst thou, dear Jesus, suffer shame, Kirkham. 477

Dismiss us with thy blessing. Lord, Hart. 72

Do not I love thee, O my Lord, Doddridge. 479

Does the Gospel word proclaim, Newton. 576

Draw near, O Son of God, draw near, Wesley. 781

Early, my God, without delay, Watts. 13

Ere to the world again we go, Anon. 70

Eternal Father, strong to save, Anon. 934

Eternal Source of every joy, Doddridge. 926

Eternal Spirit, we confess, Watts. 225

Eternal Sun of righteousness, Wesley. 430

Everlasting arms of love, Macduff. 578

Faith adds new charms to earthly bliss, Watts. 638

Faith is a living power from heaven, Anon. 639

Far as thy name is known, Watts. 51

Far down the ages now, Bonar. 721

Alphabetical Index of Hymns. 635

Far from my heavenly home, Lyte. 564

Far from my thoughts, vain world, be gone, Watts. 6

Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, Cowper. 464

Father, beneath thy sheltering wing, Anon. 437

Father, bless thy word to all, Kelly. 149

Falher, hear our humble claim, Wesleyan. 657

Father, how wide thy glory shines, Watts. 242

Father, I know that all my life, Mrs. Waring. 469

Father, if I may call thee so, Anon. 878

Father of eternal grace, Montgomery. 531

Father of men* thy care we 1 Doddridge. 953

Father of mercies, bow thin:- ear, Beddome. 713

Father of merries, condescend, ^fforell. 783

Father of mercies, in thy word, Mrs. Steele, 98

Father of mercies, send thy grace, Doddridge. 668

Father, whate'er of earthly I Mrs. Steele. 502

Flee as a bird to your mountain, Anon. 974

For a season called to part, Newton. 659

For all thy saints, 0 God, Anon. 645

For me to live is Christ, Anon. 605

For the mercies of the day, Montgomery. 41

For thee, O dear. d< :ir. Bernard, by Dr. Neale. 912

For thy mercy and thy gi Anon. '.'20

Forever here my rest shall be, Wesley. 343

Forever with the Lord, Montgomery. 853

Fount of everlasting love, Hay Palmer. 746

Fountain of grace, rich, full, and free. Anon. 514

Frequent, the da; irns, Browne. 36

Friend after friend dep Montgomery. 662

From all that dwell below tin- skies, Watts. 103

From every earthly pleasure, Davis. f>09

From every stormy wind that blows, p ;/. 685

From Greenland's Icy mountains, Ueber. 820

From the cross uplifre 1 high, Howes. 299
From the recesses of a lowly spirit, See Page 40

Gentle Shepherd, grant thy Messing, Anon. 9C4

Gently, gently lay the i Lyte. 306

Gently, Lord, O gently lea I us, Hastings, 537

Gently, my Saviour, let me down, Hill. 836

Give me the wings of faith to rise, Watts. s<)9

Give to the winds thy fears, Gcrhardt. 398

Glorious city ! Heavenly Salem, Anon. 709

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Newton. 723

Glory to God on high, Anon. 240

Glory to God whose witness train, Moravian. 648

Glory to thee, my C»od, this night, Kenn. 71

636 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

Go, labor on, while it is day, Bonar. 622

Go to dark Gethsemane, Montgomery. 729

Go to the grave, in ail thy glorious, Montgomery. 754

God bless our native land, J. S. Dwight. 951

God in the gospel of his Son, Beddome. 84

God is a spirit, just and wise, Watts. 117

God is love, his mercy brightens, Bow ring. 143

God is the refuge of his saints, Watts. 122

God moves in a mysterious way, Cowper. 1T;3

God, my supporter and my hope, Watts. 405

God of mercy, God of grace, Lytc. 728

God of my life, through all my days, Doddridge. 3S6

God of my life, to thee I call, Cowper. 5S9

God of my salvation, hear, Wesley. 36^

God of our fathers, to thy throne, L. Bacon. 949

God of our lives, thy various praise, Heginbotham. 924

God of our salvation, hear us, Anon. 80

God of the sunlight hours, how sad, Anon. 59

God of the universe, to thee, Anon. 772

God's glory is a wondrous thing, Faber. 4GS

Grace is a plant where'er it grows, Cowper. 953

Grace, 'tis a charming sound, Doddridge. 253

Gracious spirit, love divine, Scocker. 220

Great God, attend, while Zion sings. Watts. 31

Great God, beneath whose piercing eye, Jioscoe. 938

Great God, how infinite art thou, Watts. 155

Great God, in vain man's narrow view, Kippis. 106

Great God, now condescend, Fellows. 759

Great God of nations, now to thee, Anon. 937

Great God, the nations of the earth, Gibbons. 807

Great God, to thee my evening song, Mrs. Steele. 954

Great God, we sing that mighty hand, Doddridge. 925

Great God, what do I see and hear, Luther. 873

Great God, when I approach thy throne, Anon. 2G0

Great God, whom heaven and earth, Anon. 912

Great is the Lord our God, Watts. 26

Great Shepherd of the sheep, Anon. 9G3

Great Shepherd of thine Israel, Watts. 710

Great Sun of righteousness, arise, Watts. 83

Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, Oliver. G06

Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews, Watts. G50

Hail, mighty Jesus, how divine, Wall in. 809

Hail the nighc, all hull the morn, Anion. 171

Hail to the Lord's anointed, Montgomery. 823

Hail to the Prince of life and peace, Doddridge. 189

Hallelujah! best and sweetest, Breviary. COS

Alphabetical Index of Hymns, 637

I Happy the .heart where graces reign, Watts. C->1

I Happy the home when God is I re, Anon. 953

I Happy the man whose cautious feet, Watts. C31

Happy the meek whose gentle breast, J. Scott. 6 ±2

Happy the souls to Jesus j i Wesley. G56

Hark! a voice divides the sky, Wesley. 86 i

Hark, hark! the notes of jo v, Anon. 273

Hark! how the choral song of heaven, Anon. 889

Hark! my soul, it is the Lord, Cowp^r. 577

Hark! ten thousand 1; v ^ces, Kelly. 212

Hark! the glad sound, the Saviour, Doddridge. 161

Hark! the herald angels sing, /. 1C7

Hark! the song of jubilee, Montgomery. 801

Hark! the voice of love and mercy, Francis. 210

Hark! what celestial s : Anon. 165

Hark! what mean those holy voices, Cawood. 16 j

Hasten, Lord, the glorious time, Lyte. 802

Hasten, sinner, to be '■ T. Scott. 315

Have we no ten- i him, Lyra CcUh, 280

He dies, the Friend of sinners dies, Watts. 100

He knelt, the Saviour knelt, Mrs. Hemans. 206

He lives, the great Redeemer lives, Mrs. Steele. ls6

He reigns, the Lord the Saviour reigns, Watts. 214

He that goeth forth with weeping, Hastings. 569

He, who on earth as man was known, Newton. 200

He who once in righteous vengeance, Anon. 180

Hear, O sinner, m you, Iked. 319

Hear the heralds sf i' Allen's Coil. 321

Hear what God the Lord ha b Bp >ken, Coioper. 534

Hearken, Lord, to my c >mplaints, Montgomery. 491

I leavenly Pa ther, Lord, Mon igomery. 696

Heavenly Spirit, may each I Edmeston. 702

Here, Lord of life and lighl to thee, L. Bacon. 771

Here, O my Lord. 1 see thee face to face, Bonar. 752

High in (he heavens, eternal God, Watts. 124

High in yonder realms of light, BaJJies. 907

Holy Father, hear my cry, Bonar. 375

Holy Ghost! thou source of light, Anon. 230

Holy Ghost! with light divine, Reed. 231

Holy Lord, our hearts prepare, Anon. 699

Holy Spirit ! Lord of, King Robert of France. 228

Hosanna to the Prince of light, Watts. 162

How beauteous are theii Watts. 769

How blest is he whose tranquil mind, Anon. 839

How blest the righteous when he, L. Barbauld. 829

How calm and beautiful the morn, Hastings. 205

How charming is the place, Stennett. 22

638 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

How deep and tranquil is the joy. Reed. 465

How do thy mercies close me round, Wesley. 424

How firm a foundation, ye saints, Kirkham. 599

How gentle God's commands, Doddridge. 302

How heavy is the night, H'atts. 251

How helpless guilty nature lies, Mrs. Steele. 258

How honored is the place, Wafts. 722

How large the promise, how divine, Watts. 765

How lovely are thy dwellings, Lord, Milton. 30

How oft, alas, this wretched heart, Mrs. Steele. 344

How pleasant, how divinely fair, Watts. 3

How pleased and blest was I, Waits. 18

How precious is the book divine, Faivcett. 96

How sad our state by nature is, Watts. 241

How shall the young secure their hearts, Watts. 91

How sweet and awful is the place, Watts. 732

How sweet, how calm, this Sabbath morn, Anon. 47

How sweet, how heavenly is the sight, Swain. 664

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, Newton. 510

How sweet to be allowed to pray, Follett. 704

How sweet to bless the Lord, Anon. 690

How sweet to leave the world awhile, Kelly. 7

How sweetly flowed the gospel's sound, Boicring. 688

How swift the torrent rolls, Doddridge. 842

How vain is all beneath the skies, Anon. 826

I ask not now for gold to gild, Wliitiler. 646

I bow my forehead to the dust, Whittier. 466

I cannot always trace the way, Anon. 441

I cannot call affliction sweet, Montgomery. 594

I come to thee once more, my God, Faber. 705

I hear thy word with love, Watts. 571

I heard the voice of Jesus say, Bonar. 346

"I know thy thoughts are peace toward me, Anon. 409

I lay my sins on Jesus, Bonar. 376

I love the Lord, he heard my cries, Watts. 404

I love the sacred book of God, Kelly. 85

I love the volume of thy word, Watts. 88

Hove the windows of thy grace, Watts. 457

I love thy kingdom, Lord, Dicight. 720

I love to steal awhile away, Mrs. Lroivn. 58

I send the joys of earth away, Watts. 390

I sing th' almighty power of God, Watts. 137

I thirst, but not as once I did, Cowpcr. 451

I was a wandering sheep, Bonar. 356

I would not live al way, I ask not, Muhlenhurg. FC0

If God is mine, then present things, Anon. 410

Iflmman kindness meets return,

If through unruffled seas,

I'll praise my Maker with ray breath,

I'm but a stranger here,

I'm not ashamed to own my Lord,

Immortal power, eternal One,

In all my vast concerns with thee,

In deep distress our Saviour prayed

In heavenly love abiding,

In latter days the mount of God,

In the cross of Christ I glory,

In the dark and cloudy day,

In the midst of life we are in death,

In thee, great God, with BQngB of praise

In thy name, O Lord, assembling,

In vain we seek for peace with God,

Indulgent Sovereign of the Bides,

Is not the way to heavenly gain,

Is this the kind return,

It came upon the midnight clear,

Jehovah God ! thy gracious power,
Jehovah reigns, his throne is high,
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Jesus, all atoning Lamb,
Jesus, and didst thou Leave the sky,

I, and shall it ever be,
Jesus, calls us o'er the tumult,
Jesus, east a look on me,
Jesus Christ is risen to-day,
Jesus gently calls,
Jesus, 1 love thy charming name,
Jesus, I my cross have taken,
Jesus, Immortal King ! arise,
Jesus, let thy pitying eye,
Jesus. Lord, we look to thee,
Jesus, Lover of my soul,
Jesus, most hole, pray I to thee,
Jesus, only when the morning,
Jesus, our Lord, how rich thy grace,
Jesus, save my dying soul,
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun,
Jesus, Shepherd of the sheep,
Jesus spreads his banner o'er us,
Jesus, still lead on,
Jesus, take me for thine own,
Josus, tender Saviour,

" Hymns. 639

Xoel.

730

Anon.

559

1, Waits.

89

T. n. Taylor.

55G

Watts.

499

Mrs. Collins.

400

Watts.

120

Watts.

177

Mrs. Waring.

CIO

Logan.

798

Boicring.

50G

Anon.

582

Noiker.

9CG

use, Barlow.

945

Kelly.

79

Watts.

243

Doddridg .

7 92

Lj/te.

433

Watts.

/:. //.

159

Th>>7n.*nn.

121

W<>t!.<.

111

,

634

Mrs.

L'70

Gregg.

:.4::

318

Hi r

Latin.

191

K. P. V

331

1 Idridge.

rder.

808

■ 1 L

Anon.

381

373

Doddridge.

Cm 2

Battings.

3f»4

Watts.

786

Anon.

52?

Anon.

7-4

Zinzendorff.

545

Anon.

C32

Anon.

9GG

640 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

Jesus, the very thought of thee, Bernard. 486

Jesus, these eyes have never seen, Bay Palmer. 503

Jesus, thou art the sinner's friend, Parkinson. 476

Jesus, t'hou everlasting King, Watts. 743

Jesus, thou joy of loving, Bernard, by Palmer. 543

Jesus, thy blood and, Wesley's Trans. 3±0

Jesus, thy boundless love to me, Anon. 513

Jesus, thy love shall we forget, Anon. 511

Jesus, we look to thee, Wesley. 695

Jesus, where'er thy people meet, Cowper, 45

Jesus, who knows full well, Newton. 603

Jesus, who on Calvary's mountain, Anon. 372

Jesus, whom angel hosts adore, Bonar. 183

Join all the glorious names, Watts. 275

Joy to the world, the Lord is come, Watts. 163

Joyful be the hours to-day, Kelly. 743

Just as I am without one plea, Charlotte Elliot. 333

Keep silence, all created things, Watts. 116

Keep us, Lord, oh, keep us ever, Anon. 607

Kingdoms and thrones to God belong, Watts. 101

Laboring and heavy laden, Rankin. 371

Lamp of our feet, whereby we trace, Barton. 90

Lead, kindly light, amid, Neivman, seepage 41

Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us, Anon. 528

Let children hear the mighty deeds, Watts. 957

Let everlasting glories crown, Watts. 87

Let me be with thee where thou art, Anon. 540

Let not your heart be faint, Anon. 572

Let others boast how strong they be, Watts. 850

Let our songs of praise ascending, Anon. 170

Let saints below in concert sing, Wesley. 655

Let sinners take their course, Watts. 399

Let us keep steadfast guard, Breviary. 566

Let us with a joyful mind, Milton. 144

Let worldly minds the world pursue, Newton. 414

Light of those whose dreary dwelling, Wesley. 533

Like sheep we went astray, Watts. 255

Lo! God is here, let us adore, J. Wesley. 34

Lo ! he comes with clouds descending, Oliver. 883

Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, Wesley. 8SI

Lo! round the throne, a glorious band, Anon. 890

Lo ! the day of rest declineth, Bobbins. 76

Lo ! the mighty God appearing, W. Goode. 884

Lo ! what a glorious Corner-stone, Watts. 8

Alphabetical Index of Hymns. 641

Lo! what a glorious sight appears, TVatts. 796

Look up, my soul, with cheerful eye, Anon. 248

Lord, as to thy dear cross we flee, Anon. 667

Lord, at thy table I behold, Stennett. 733

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, Burdtr. 78

Lord, how delightful 'tis to see, TVatts. 4

Lord, how secure my conscience was, Watts. 257

Lord, I am vile, conceived in sin, Watts. 244

Lord, I believe, thy power I own, Wreford. 423

Lord., I have made thv word my choice, Watts. 95

Lord, I hear that showers of blessing, Anon. 367

Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear, Watts. 11

Lord, in the temples of thy grace, Anon. 43

Lord, in this, thy mercy's day, Anon. 3*2

Lord, in thy great, thy glorious name, Mrs. Steele. &8
Lord, it belongs not to my care, Baxter. 431

Lurd, lead the way the Saviour went, Crosicell. Ci'o
Lord, my weak thought in vain, Ray Palnur. 114

Lord of all being, throned afar, O. W. Holmes. 150
Lord of all families below, Anon. 959

Lord of earth, thy forming hand, Grant. 145

Lord of the harvest, hear, W <Uy. 768

Lord of the world, who hast preserved, Breviary. 961
Lord of the worlds above, Watts. 10

Lord, send thy Word, and let it fly, Gibbons. 806

Lord, teach us bow to pray aright, Montyom^ry. fS&i
Lord, thou oast searched, and teen me, Watts. Y ' 1

Lord, thou on earth didst love thine, Hay Palmer. 671
Lord, thou wilt hoar mo when I pray, Watts. 63

Lord, we come tx now, Hammond. 39

Lord, we confess our numerous faults, Watts. 4.". 2

Lord, we have wandered forth through, Anon.
Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, Watts. 246

Lord, when my thoughts delighted, Mrs. Steele. 1 ">
Lord, whan Mall guilt] - >uls retire, Watts. 119

Lord, White for all mankind wo pray, WJford. 941

Lord, with glowing heart I'd praise thee, S. F, Key. 142
Love divine, all love excelling, J/\

Majestic sweetness sits enthroned, Stcnnitt.

Man's wisdom is I I peek, Cou\ I 2

Many centuries have lied, Condor, 7u7

May he, by whose kind care we meet, Newton, 659

May the grace of Christ our Saviour, Newton, M

Men of God, go take your stations, Ktlly. ■ 817

'Mid scenes of confusion and, Anon. 6»;i

Mighty one ! before whose face, Bryant. 148

642 Alphabetical Index tf Hymns.

Millions within thy courts have met, Montgomery. 67

Mine eyes and my desire, Watts. 501

Morning breaks upon the tomb, Colly er. 192

Mourn for the thousand slain, Anon. 950

Must Jesus bear the cross alone, Allen. 037

My country, 'tis of thee, S. F. Smith. 952

My dear Redeemer, and my Lord, Watts. 172

My faith looks up to thee, Bay Palmer. 54G

My Father God ! how sweet the sound, Doddridge. 415

My God, accept my early vows, Watts. 051

My God, accept my heart this day, Lyra Cath. 340

My God, how endless is thy love, Watts. 05

My God, how wonderful thou art, Anon. 420

My God, is any hour so sweet, Seepage 42

My God, my Father, blissful name, Mrs. Steele. 422

My God, my Father, while I stray, Charlotte Elliot. 440

My God, my King, thy various praise, Watts. 123

My God, my portion, and my love, Watts. 417

My God, oh, could I make the claim, Mrs. Steele. 456

My God, permit me not to be, Watts. 452

My God, the covenant of thy love, Doddridge. 434

My God, the spring of all my joys, Watts. 495

My hope is built on nothing less, Anon. 512

My Jesus, as thou wilt, " Schmolk. 590

My Maker, and my King, r Mrs. Steele. 133

My only Saviour, when I feel, Anon. 441

My Saviour bids me come, Wesley. 357

My Saviour, let me hear thy voice, Doddridge. 4S8

My Saviour, my almighty Friend, Watts. 481

My soul, amid this stormy world, Chapman. 803

My soul, be on thy guard, Heath. 619

My soul, how lovely is the place, Watts, 15

My spirit looks to God alone, Anon, 427

My spirit on thy care, Lyte. 557

Nearer, my God, to thee, S. F, Adams, 555

New every morning is the love, Keble. 33

No more-, my God, I boast no more, Watts. 339

No, never shall my heart despond, Anon. 679

Nor eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard, Watts. 897

Not all the blood of beasts, Watts. 254

Not all the outward forms on earth, Watts. 259

Not by the martyr's death alone, Anon. 641

Not for the pious dead we weep, L, Barbauld. 845

Not with our mortal eyes, Watts. 483

Now be my heart inspired to sing, Watts. 173

Now begin the heavenly theme, Langfwd. 613

Now for a tune of lofty praise, Watts. 158

Alphabetical Index of Hymns. 643

Now is th' accepted time,

Now let our cheerful eyes survey,

Now let our souls on wings sublime,

Now let our voices join,

Now may lie who from the dead,

Now, my soul, thy voice upraising,

Now to the Lord, a noble song,

Now to the Lord who makes us know,

O bless the Lord, my soul, His,

O bless the Lord, my soul, Let,

O blessed souls are they,

O bow thine ear, eternal One !

O cease, my wandering soul,

O Christ ! I long to know thee,

O Christ ! our ever-blessed Lord,

O Christ ! with each returning morn,

O could I find from day to day,

O could I speak the matchless worth,

O could our thoughts and wishes fly,

O day of rest and glad 1

O deem not they are blest alone,

O eyes that are weary, and hearts that are,

O for a closer walk with God,

O for a heart to praise niy God,

O for a shout of sacred joy,

O for a sight, a pleasing sight,

O for a sweet, inspiring ray,

O for a thousand tongues to sing,

O for the death of those,

O God ! beneath thy guiding hand,

O God ! by whom the seed la given,

O God of Bethel by whose hand,

O God ! our God, thou shinest here,

O God ! our help in ages past,

O God ! thou art my God alone,

O God ! unseen, yet ever near.

O happy day, that fixed my choice,

O happy nation, where the Lord,

O happy saints, that dwell in light,

O happy soul, that lives on high,

O help us, Lord, each hour of need,

Oholy Father ! just and true,

O holy Saviour ! Friend unseen,

O holy Saviour ! pray for me,

O how divine, how sweet the joy,

O how I love thy holy law,

O Jesus I bruised and wounded more,

Dobell.

305

Doddridge.

515

Gibbons.

886

Doddridge.

621

Neicton.

57

Anon.

179

mats.

473

', Watts.

220

Montgomery.

129

Watts.

ISO

Watts.

358

Anon.

770

Muhlenburg .

304

Hay Palmer.

518

Anon.

2C6

Latin.

44

Anon.

458

Medley.

504

Mrs. Steele.

89G

Wordsworth.

1

Bryant.

453

tare, Anon.

597

Cowper.

449

Wesley.

455

Watts.

175

Watts.

687

Mrs. Steele.

885

501

Anon.

841

L. ] la con.

935

JR be r.

49

Doddridge.

411

Gill.

794

Watts.

8C9

Montgomery.

415

Anon.

736

Doddridge.

755

Watts.

932

Anon.

888

Watts.

403

Milman.

450

WliittUr.

936

Anon.

324

Anon.

972

Keedham.

351

Watts.

92

, Anon.

748

644 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

O Lamb of God, still iveep me, Anon. 549

O Lord and Master of us all, Wliittier. 474

O Lord, how full of sweet content, Mad. Guion. 4 14

O Lord, how infinite thy love, Lyte. 262

O Lord, I would delight in thee, Ihjland. 423

O Lord, our carnal mind control, Anon. 017

O Lord, our fathers oft have told, Tate and Bratfy. '. ' -7

O Lord, our God, arise, Anon. 77G

O Lord, our heavenly King, Watts. 132

O Lord, thy covenant is sure, Conder. 733

O Lord, thy work revive, Browne. 773

O love divine, how sweet thou art, Wesley. 505

O love divine, that stooped to share, O. W. Holmes. 433

O love, who e'er life's earliest dawn, Anon. 503

O mother dear, Jerusalem, Quarles. C02

O my Saviour ! crucified, Anon. 745

O my Saviour, guardian true, Anon. 54

O my soul, what means this sadness, Fawcett. 527

O praise the Lord, for he is good, Wrangham. 43^

O sacred Head, now wounded, Gerhardt. 547

O Saviour, who didst come, Anon. 5G0

O say to all men far and near, Kovalis. 193

O sinner, lift the eye of faith, Anon. 3S5

O sinners, come, and taste his love, Watts. 288

O Spirit of the living God, Montgomery, 7S5

O Sun of righteousness, arise, Anon. 790

O sweetly breathe the lyres above, Bay Palmer. 438

O that I could forever dwell, Reed. 588

O that I knew the secret place, Watts. 440

O that my load of sin were gone, Wesley. 335

O that the Lord would guide my ways, IVatts. 90

O the sweet wonders of that cross, Watts. 187

O thou, from whom all goodness flows, Anon. 447

O thou Preserver of mankind, Dwiglit. 940

O thou that hear est prayer, Anon. 23G

O thou, the contrite shiner's Friend, C. Elliott. 325

O thou to whom in ancient time, Ware. 32

O thou who driest the mourner's tear, Moore. 448

O thou who hear'st the prayer of faith, Toplady. 379

O thou whom we adore, Wesley. 777

O thou whose own vast temple stands, Bryant. 773

O thou whose tender mercy hears, Mrs. Steele. 350

O what a lonely path were ours, Anon. 421

O what amazing words of grace, Medley. 2.°9

O what if we are Christ's, Anon. 854

O where are kings and empires now, A. C. Coxe. 718

O where shall rest be found, Montgomery. 308

Alphabetical hidex of Hymns. 645

O worship the king, all glorious above, Grant. 140

O Zion ! afflicted with wave upon wave, Anon. 598

O'er the gloomy hills of darkness, Williams. 816

O'er the realms of pagan darkness, Cotterell. 818

Oft in sorrow, oft in woe, H. K. White. 612

On the mountain's top appearing, Kelly. 813

Once I thought my mountain strong, Newton. 554

Once was heard the song of children, Anon. 968

One prayer I have, all prayers in one, Montgomery. 708

One sweetly solemn thought, Phozbe Carey. 840

One there is above all others, Newton. 316

Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed, Lyte. 222

Our children, Lord, in faith and prayer, Anon. 766

Our children, thou dost claim, Anon. 760

Our Christ hath reached his, FrotMngham. 715

Our country is Immanuel's ground, L. Barbauld. 649

Our Father, God ! who art in heaven, Judson. 676

Our Father, through the coming year, Avon. 918

Our heavenly Father calls, Doddridge, 307

Our helper God, we bless thy name, Doddridge. 927

Our Lord is risen from the dead, Wesley. 188

People of the living God I Montr/ornery. 742

Pilgrims In this vale of sorrow, Hastings. 568

Pity, Lord, the child of clay, Anon. 553

Pleasant are thy courts above, Lyte. 10

Plunged in a gulf of dark despair, Watts. 201

Pour out thy Spirit from on high, Montgomery. 779

Praise to God, immortal praise, L. Barbauld. 928

Praise to thee, thou great Creator, 141

Praise waits in Zion, Lord, for thee, Wafts. 29

Praise ye the Lord, my heart shall join, Watts. 1C8

Prayer is the breath ( f God in man, Anon. 677

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Montgomery. 675

Prepare us, Lord, to view thy eross, Anon. 738

Prince of peace, control my will, Anon. 583

Quiet, Lord, my froward heart, Newton. 525

Paise your triumphant songs, Watts. 204

Rejoice in God alway, Moultrie. 620

Pejoice. rejoice, believers, Laurenti. 821

Pejoice, the Lord is King, Wesley. 484

Pejoice to-day, with one accord, Anon. 393

Rejoice, ye caints, rejoice and praise, Anon. 471

Remember thy Creator now, Anon. 292

Pest from thy labor, rest, Montgomery. 780

Resting from his work to-day, Anon. 740

646 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

Return, my roving heart, return,
Return, my soul, and sweetly rest,
Return, O wanderer, now return,
Return, O wanderer, to thy home,
Ride on, ride on, in majesty,
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Rise, O my soul, pursue the path,
Rock of Ages ! cleft for me,
Roll on, thou mighty ocean,

Safely through another week,
Salvation ! O the joyful sound,
Saviour, breathe an evening blessing,
Saviour, like a Shepherd lead us,
Saviour, teach me day by day,
Saviour, what gracious words,
Saviour, when in dust to thee,
Saw ye not the cloud arise,
Say, sinner, hath a voice within,
See, from Zion's sacred mountain,
See, gracious God, before thy throne
See Israel's gentle Shepherd stand,
See the leaves around us falling,
See what a living stone,
Servant of God, well done,
Shall I fear, O earth, thy bosom,
Shall we gather at the river,
Shepherd, with thy tenderest love,
Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive,
Silently the shades of evening,
Since all the varying scenes of time,
Sing, ye redeemed of the Lord,
Sinner, rouse thee from thy sleep,
Sinners, turn, why will ye die,
Sion's daughter, weep no more,
So fades the lovely blooming flower,
So let our lips and lives express,
Soft and holy is the place,
Softly fades the twilight ray,
Softly now the light of day, —
Soldiers of Christ, arise,
Songs of praise the angels sang,
Sons of men, behold from far,
Soon as I heard my Father say,
Soon may the last glad song arise,
Soul, then know thy full salvation,
Sovereign of worlds, display thy power,

Doddridge.

436

Latrobc.

425

Collyer.

297

Hastings.

200

Milman.

213

3, Cennick.

914

Needham.

901

Toplady.

552

Pratt's Coll.

811

Neicton.

9

Watts.

261

', Ddmeston.

74

Anon.

526

Anon.

530

Anon.

662

Grant.

374

Wesley.

804

Hyde.

285

Kelly.

815

, Mrs. Steele.

946

Dodlridge.

783

Home.

858

Watts.

25

Montgomery.

855

Davis.

857

R. Dowry.

969

Anon.

523

Watts.

336

Anon.

75

Hervey.

412

Doddridge.

627

Anon.

313

Wesley.

312

Anon.

739

Mrs. Steele.

831

Watts.

629

Hastings.

697

S. F. Smith.

56

Doane.

53

Wesley.

617

Montgomery.

193

Wesley.

805

Watts.

348

Anon.

787

Lyte.

369

5r, Anon.

793

Alphabetical Index of Hymns. 647

Sow in the morn thy seed, Montgomery. 573

Spirit of peace ! celestial Dove, Lyte. 707

Spirit of power and might, behold, Montgomery. 797

Spirit of truth, on this thy day, Ileber. 37

Stand up, and bless the Lord, Montgomery. 24

Stand up, my soul, shake oft* thy fears, Watts. G23

Stand up, stand up for Jesus, IhijJicM. 810

Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay, Wesley. 342

Stealing from the world away, Bay Palmer. 098

Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear, Keble. 64

Sweet is the light of Sabbath eve, Edmeston. CG

Sweet is the memory of thy grace, Watts. 407

Sweet is the prayer whose holy, II. Martinets*. CSO

Sweet is the work, my God, my King, Watts. 2

Sweet is the work, O Lord, Lyte. 23

Sweet peace of conscience, heavenly, Hrginhotham. 443

Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go, Monk's Coll. C8

Sweet the moments, rich In blessing, Anon. 530

Sweet the time, exceeding s Ilurdcr. 146

Sweet was the time when first I felt, X vtom. #89
Sweeter sounds than music knows, Jfi >/-'<-»:».

Sweeter to Jesus when on earth, H. Kimball. 538

Take me, O my Father, take me, Ray Palmer. 317

Take my heart, O Father, take It, Anon. 370

Tarry with me, 0 my Saviour, Anon. IS
Teach me, my God and King, II nfc rt.

The Almighty reigns, exalted high, Walt*. 110
That awful day will surely come, Watts,

That day of wrath, that, Ctefa**, hy W. Scott. 877

The billows swell, the winds are high, OowptT. 587
The bird let loose in eastern si Moon

The Church of Christ, which he hath, Spangenhurg. 7" I
The. Comforter has come, Ana .

The day is past and gone, Inland. B0

The festal morn, my Qod, has c 'inc. ii rrieb, 20

The Hoods, 0 I/>rd, lift op their voice, £urg<>.<s. 11?

The golden gates are lifted up, Anon. 105
The harvest dawn b near, Burgrss.

The Head that once was crowned with, Kelly. 208

The heavens declare thy glory. Lord, Watts, 62

The King of heaven his table spreads, Doddridge. 294

The Lord in trouble hear thee, Lyte. 378

The Lord is Judge, before his throne, W. Coode. V.Q

The Lord is my Shepherd, no want, Montgomery, C01

The Lord is our refuge, the Lord is our guide, Lytt . C03

The Lord is risen, indeed, Kelly. 202

648 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

The Lord Jehovah reigns, Anil, Watts. 19

The Lord Jehovah reigns, His, Watts. 238

The Lord my pasture shall prepare, Addison. 134

The Lord my Shepherd is, Watt*. 396

The Lord of glory is my light, Watts. 714

The Lord our God is full of might, //. K. White. 138

The Lord shall come, the earth shall quake, JJeher. blQ

The Lord will come, and not he slow, Milton. 795

The lovely form of God's own Church, A/ford. 717

The morning light is breaking, S. F. Smith. 822

The people of the Lord, Anon. 644

The pity of the Lord, Watt*. 128

The roseate hues of early dawn, Anon. 894

The Saviour calls, let every ear, Mrs. Steele. 299

The Saviour kindly calls, Anon. 761

The Saviour ! O what endless charms, Mrs. Steele. 265

The Saviour ! what a noble flame, Coicper. 176

The Son of God goes forth to war, , Anon. 401

The spacious firmament on high, Addison. 125

The Spirit in our hearts, Anon. 303

The Spirit like a peaceful Dove, Watts. 653

The sun is sinking in the west, Anon. 61

The swift declining day, Doddridge. 806

The twilight falls, the night is near, Anon. 62

The voice of free grace cries, Thornby. 328

The year has gone beyond recall, Anon. 919

Thee we adore, Eternal Name, Watts. 923

There is a blessed home, Baker. 909

There is a book who runs may read, Keble. 431

There is a fountain filled with blood, Cowper. 264

There is a house not made with hands, Watts. 895

iThere is a land mine eye hath seen, Anon. 891

There is a land of pure delight, Watts. 900

There is a state, unknown, unseen, Jane Taylor. 847

There is an hour of hallowed, Wm. B. Tappan. 893

There is an hour of peaceful rest, Tappan. 892

There is an hour when I must part, Anon. 867

There is none other name than thine, Anon. 250

There's nothing bright above, below, Moore. 112

They are all gone into the world of light, Vaughan. 905

They who seek the throne of grace, Anon. 700

Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love, Doddridge. 5

Thine forever, God of love, Anon. 703

Think gently of the erring one, Fletcher. 670

This is the day the Lord hath made, Watts. 12

This place is holy ground, Montgomery. 863

Thou art gone to the grave, but we, Ileber. 329

Alphabetical Index of Hymns. 649

Tliou art gone up on high, Anon. 355

Thou art, O God, the life and light, Moore. 135

Thou art the way, to thee alone, Doane. 268

Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb, Cennick. 475

Thou gracious God, and kind, Pratt's Coll. 360

Thou Holy Spirit, Lord of grace, Anon. 38

Thou Judge of quick and dead, Wesley. 870

Thou, Lord, of all the parent art, Martineau's Coll. 113

Thou lovely source of true delight, Mrs. Steele. ECO

Thou Maker of my vital frame, Watts. See page 39

Thou only Sovereign of my heart, Mrs. Steele. 391

y Thou Prince of glory, slain for me, Collyer. 337

Thou Saviour, from thy throne on, Ray Palmer. 682

Thou very present aid, Wesley. 643

Thou who didst on Calvary bleed, Anon. 747

Thou who roll'st the year around, Pay Palmer. 917

Though all the world my choice deride, Tcrstcegan. 341

Though faint, yet pursuing, Anon. 602

Though now the nations sit beneath, L. Bacon. 791

Through all the changing scenes, Tate and Brady. 429

Through sorrow's night and danger's, //. A". White. 848

Thus far the Lord has led me on, }\'atts. 69

Thy footsteps, Lord, with joy we trace, Anon. 941

Thy goodness, Lord, our souls confess, Gibbons. 408

Thy holy will, my God, be mine, Pay Palmer. 595

Thy mighty working, mighty God, Anon. 21

Thy way is in the sea, Fawcett. 482

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, Bonar. 591

Thy will be done! in devious, Boicring. Seepage 41

Thy works, not mine, O Christ, Bonar. 273

Time is winging us away, J. Burton. 915

'Tis by the faith of joys to come, Watts. 6-10

'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand, Watts. 920

'Tis finished! so the Saviour cried, Stennett. 184

'Tis God, the Spirit, leads, Anon. 235

'Tis midnight, and on Olive's brow, Tap-pan. 182

'Tis my happiness below, Coicper. 579

'Tis not a cause of small import, Doddridge. f€3

To-day the Saviour calls, Anon. 327

To God, the only wise, Watts. 4.3

To heaven I lift my waiting eyes, Watts. 154

To Him that chose us first, Waits. 237

To Jesus, the crown of my hope, Coicper. 911

To our Redeemer's glorious name, Mrs. Steele. 480

To thee all angels cry aloud, Anon. 102

To thy pastures fair and large, Merrick. 529

To thy temple, we repair, Montgomery. 40

650 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

To whom, my Saviour, shall I go, Anon. 463

To-morrow, Lord, is thine, Doddridge. 851

Trembling before thine awful throne, Hill house. 338

Triumphant Christ ascends on high, Mrs. Steele. 199

Triumphant Zion, lift thine head, Doddridge. 712

Try us, O God, and search the ground, Wesley. 673

Turn not thy face away, O Lord, Anon. 347

'Twas on that dark, that doleful night, Watts. 756

Unshaken as the sacred hill,
Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb,
Up to the hills, I lift mine eyes,
Up to the Lord who reigns on high,
Upon the Gospel's sacred page,
Upward I lift mine eyes,

Vainly through night's weary hours,

Watts. 413

Watts. 830

Watts. 387

Watts. 109

Boicring. 86

Watts. 166

Lyte. 725

"Wait, O my soul, thy Maker's will, Beddome 105

Wake the song of jubilee, Z. Bacon. 803

Watchman, tell us of the night, Bowring. 800

"We are on our journey home, Charles Beecher. 615

We bless thee for thy peace, O God, Anon. 467

We love the place, O God, Anon. 52

We love the venerable house, Emerson. 719

We praise thee oft for hours of bliss, J. P. Hopps. 596

We pray thee, wounded Lamb of God, Anon. 751

We sinners, Lord, with earnest heart, Bernard. 352

We speak of the realms of the blest, Anon. 910

"We stand in deep repentance, Bay Palmer. 377

We would sec Jesus, for the shadows, Anon. 586

Weary of wandering from my God, Wesley. 518

Weary sinner, keep thine eyes, Anon. 311

Weary souls that wander wide, Wesley. 300

Welcome, delightful morn, Hayivard. 17

Welcome, sweet day of rest, Watts. 27

Welcome, welcome, dear Redeemer, Anon. 322

We've no abiding city here, Kelly. 838

What equal honors shall we bring. Watts. 215

What grace, O Lord, and beauty, Anon. 669

What shall I render to my God, Watts. 419

What shall the dying sinner do, Watts. 219

What sinners Tame, I resign, Watts. 832

What various hindrances we meet, Cowper. 6S3

When all thy mercies, O my God, Addison. 402

When along life's thorny road, Anon. 5£9

When brighter suns and milder skies, " Peabody. 922

When forth from Egypt's trembling, Burgess. 948

Alphabetical Index of Hymns. 65 1

"When from my sight all fades away, Anon. 827

When gathering clouds around I view, Grant. 517

When God is nigh, my faith is strong, Waits. 834

When God revealed his gracious name, Watts. 406

"When I can read my title clear, Watts. 416

When I survey the wondrous cross, Waits. 181

When Jordan hushed his waters still, T. Campbell. 137

When languor and disease invade, Toplady. 593

When, like a stranger on our sphere, Montgomery. 174

When marshalled on the nightly, II. K. White. 472

When musing sorrow weeps the past, Noel. 904

When my last hour is close at, Trans, by Bowring. 874

When, my Saviour, shall 1 be, Wesley. 744

When on Sinai's top I see, Montgomery. 363

When our heads are bowed with woe, Heber. 581

When overwhelmed with grief, Waits. 563

When shall the voice of Binging, Pratt's Coll. 812

When sins and fears prevailing rise, Mrs. Steele. 442

When the harvest is past and the, S. F. Smith. 383

When the worn spirit wants repose, Edmeston. 60

When thou, my righteous Judge, shall come, Anon. 880

When thy mortal life is lied, & F. Smith. 314

When winds are raging, Mrs. Stowe. Seepage 42

While in sweet communion feeding, Anon. 726

While life prolongs its precious light, Dwight. 282

While my Redeemer's near, Mrs. Steele. 558

While o'er our guilty land, O Lord, Dacics. 939

While o'er the deep thy servants sail, Burgess. 943

While thee I seek, protecting, Miss Williams. 14

While with ceaseless course the sun, vton. 916

Whither, 0 whither should I fly, Wesley. 426

Who are these in bright array, Montgomery. 908

Who. O Lord, when life is o'er, Lyte. 633

Who shall ascend thy heavenly, W « ''■'. 628

Whom have we, Lord, in heaven but thee, Lyte. 497

Why do we mourn departing friends, Watts. 844

Why, O God, thy people spurn. Hatfield. 930

Why on the bending willows hung, Anon. 788

Why should our tears in sorrow How, Anon. 843

Why should the children of a king, Watts. 223

Why should we start and fear to die, Watts. 824

Why will ye waste on trilling cares, Doddridge. 286

Will not that joyful be, Schwienitz. 614

With all my powers of heart and tongue, Watls. 389

With broken heart and contrite sigh, Anon. 332

With grateful hearts, with joyful tongues, Anon. 933

With heavenly power, O Lord, defend, Anon. 764

With joy we hail the sacred day, Lyte. 48

652 Alphabetical Index of Hymns.

With joy we meditate the grace, Watts,

With reverence let the saints appear, Watts.

With songs and honors sounding loud, Watts.

With tearful eyes 1 look around, Anon,

Witness, ye men and angels, now, Beddome.

Worthy the Lamb of boundless sway, Shirley.

Ye Christian heralds, go proclaim, Anon.

Ye hearts with youthful vigor warm, Doddridge.

Ye humble souls, approach your God, Mrs. Steele.

Ye humble souls that seek the Lord, Doddridge.

Ye nations, round the earth rejoice, Watts.

Ye saints, your music bring, Reed.
Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim, Anon.

Ye servants of the Lord, Doddridge.

Ye who in these courts are found, Anon.

Ye wretched, hungry, starving poor, Mrs. Steele.

Yes, we trust the day is breaking, Kelly.

Yes, welcome was the call, Anon.

Your harps, ye trembling saints, Toplady.

Zion stand* with hills surrounded. Kelly. 814

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

b'ding, —
in Christ, 509, 540, 597, 740.
Christ in us, 73, 543, 600, 607.
absence from God, 446, 449, 491, 561.
xcepted time, 305, 327.
xcess to God, 2G3, 307, 693, 694.
LCtivity, 573, 622, 626.
Ldoption, 397, 415, 422.
Ldvent of Christ,

at birth. (See Christ.)
to judgment, 214, 220, 876, 880-
884.
Adoration, —

of God. (See God.)
of Christ. (See Christ.)
of Holy Ghost. (See Holy Ghost.)
of Trinity. (See Trinity.)
Afflictions, 133, 453, 517, 575,579,580-

584, 589, 590, 594, 596.
Always with us, 196, 535.
Ashamed of Jesus, 499, 542.
Asleep in Jesus, 828, 864, 865, 874,

875.
Aspiration, —

after God, 3, 417, 452, 458, 491,

495, 555, 561, 616.
after heaven. (See heaven.)
after higher life, 221, 449, 455,
459, 505, 555, 585, 588.
Assurance, 223, 3(59, 397, 409, 415, 416,

41% 442, 479, 515, 599.
.Atonement, —

effect of, on men, 181, 1S5, 337,

343,504,511.
faith in, 254, 276, 536, 552. (See
Trust.)

glory of God in, 242, 365, 408,

745.

ground of pardon and hope, 179,

180, 183, 243, 256, 260, 273, 512,

520, 521, 536, 552.

necessity of, 87, 244, 255, 385, 516.

origin of, in God's love, 151, 198,

204, 253, 490.
praise for, 87, 142, 201, 203, 204,
242, 254, 262, 263, 266, 267, 272
507, 536, 743.
Bumcient and complete, 179, 210,

275. 328, 470. 512, 788t
universal, 1S4, 247, 328.
Baptism (children), 759, 760, 763,765,

766.
Benevolence, 663, 665, 666, 669, 672.
BiMe. (See Holy Scriptures.)
Brotherly kindness, 653, 654, 661,

664, 667, 668, 671.
Burial hymns, 329, 830, 862, 863, 865,

906. (See, also, Death.)
Calvary, 179, 180, 183, 266, 365, 503,
546, 739, 745, 747. (See Christ. )
J, —

casting on God, 339,432, 439, 461,
575, 580, 862, 6;>3, 747.
Charity. (See Love.)
Children and youth, 91, 292, 762, 955,

981
Childlikeness, 525, 635, 646.
Christ,—

adoration of, 156, 158, 161, 162,
185, 167, 171, 173, 187, 190, 191,
193, 194, 202, 203, 209, 210, 211,
212, 216-220, 240, 272, 478, 480,

654

Index of Subjects.

493, 497, 504, 520, 53G, 603, 613,

743.
ascension of, 190, 195.
birth of, 156, 157, 159, 160, 163-

165, 167, 169, 171.
character of, 172, 176, 665, 669,

671, 682.
conflict and sufferings, 177-182,

206, 385, 511, 547, 603, 687, 747.
crucifixion of, 181, 184, 190, 385,

745. (See Calvary and Geth-
semane.)
exaltation and glory, 158, 162,
163, 188, 189, 195, 197, 200. 201,

207, 208, 494, 500, 821.
intercession of, 186, 276, 325.
resurrection of, 35, 175, 188, 191,

192, 194, 196, 199, 202, 205.
Christ, names of, —

Advocate, 248, 276, 307, 476,
589.

"All in All," 463, 519, 521, 543,
550, 586, 643.

" Day-Star," 489.

Fountain, 264, 521,343, 544, 551.

"Friend of Sinners," 316, 513,
536, 542.

High Priest, 514,515,
Christ, names of, —

Inimanuel, 516, 520. <

Judge, 484, 880, 882-884.

King, 195, 478, 484, 821.

" Lamb of God," 254, 546, 549.

" Light," 489, 533, 543.

"Refuge," 550, 580, 599, 674, 679.

" Rock," 512, 582, 586.

Shepherd, 522, 523, 526, 529, 553,
601.

Son of God, 158, 485.

Son of Man, 182, 374, 514, 581.

"Way, Truth, and Life," 268,
474.

" Unseen but Precious," 483, 509.
Christians, 490, 534, 631, 633, 671,703.
Church, —

divinely founded,708-710,718,723.

catholic, 657, 717, 753.

*

glory of, 534, 716, 720, 722, 7!
God's care of, 51, 598, 711,

813, 814.
institutions of. (See Ministi
love to, 714, 719, 720, 723.
ordinances of. (See Baptism
Lord's Supper.)
Close of worship, 36, 38, 41, 52l
57, 60, 66, 67, 68, 70, 72, 78, 8i
Close of year, 920, 927, 929.
Comforter. (See Holy Ghost.)
Coming to Christ, 291, 332-334,

361, 362, 371, 381, 438, 463, jf
543, 567, 687, 688, 701.
Coming to God, 436, 578, 681,

705.
Communion, —

of saints, 51, 652, 655, 656.
with God and Christ, 58, 307,

464, 465, 536, 593, 686.
at Lord's table. (See Loi
Supper.)

Confession, 244, 254, 332, 333, 334, a

347, 352, 358, 362, 363, 364, 3|

Confidence, 387, 396, 413, 466,

499, 529, 544, 545, 557, 558,

593, 597, 601, 602, 610.

Conflict, 554, 587, 612, 619,

Conscience, —

peace of, 243, 250, 254, 443,
639, 640.
Consecration, —

of self, 185, 419, 449, 477,
492, 546, 503, 583, 634, 703, 1[
742, 755.
of children, 661, 759, 763, 766.
Consolations and comfort, 279, 3*<
326, 439, 440, 441, 448, 453, 5:*
534, 535, 537, 538, 541, 562, 5(
582, 584, 585, 593, 745, 747, 81
848, 849, 859, 866, 892, 893, 904. \
Constancy, 463, 602, 636.

inconstancy lamented, 492, 51
695.

Contentment, 444, 525, 559, 591, 601

Conversion. (See Regeneration, R

pentance.)

' ' ie
10.

9, 644, 72»e

Index of Subjects.

tlon. (See Repentance, Heart.)' Exhortations, —

tn rPiT>ttIltanC

655

Ci -stone, 709.

age, 387, 573, 612, 616, 622-626,

,nant, 409, 434, 599, 734, 738, 760,

765, 767.
ss, at the, 180, 536, 745, 747. (See

Lord's Supper.)
bearing the, 208, 368, 539, 605,

C37.
glorying in, 181, 187, 271, 2<7,

339, 506, 539, 542.
salvation by, 179, 180, 1*7, 243,

277, 438, 488, 516, 520, 547, 652,

739.
,th, 329, 824,830,831,836,867.

a sleep, 830, 832, 835, 837, 848,

857, 875.
blessedness of the dead hi Christ,
828, 829, 837, 843-845, 859, 802-
865.
conquered, 875.
is gain, 841, 904.
of dear ones, 849.
'.crees, 104, 105,114,412.
ulication, 708, 709, 770, 772, 773,
774,

to repentance, 274, 281, 283, 285,

286, 292, 297, 300, 301, 305, 310-

3is! 319, 321, 327, 330, 331, 851,

980.

Faith. (See Confidence and Trust.)

a grace, 639, G40.

power of, 638, 639.

living by, 559, 560, 895.

Faithfulness, 409, 431.

of God, 578, 599, 641.
Family, 660, 953, 956, 957, 959, 961.
Fasting, 930, 939, 946.
Father, — ■

" Our Father," 422, 440, 531, 562,

Fellowship, 057, 868, 600, 6S5, 753,
7." 7.

Forgiveness,—

atonement, the ground of, 1.9,

251, 615, 552,

5,351,368,486,6*.
prayers tor, 810, - 336,

33T, 402, 51s, 628, 540, 552, 684,
. 101,
Friend of sinners, 390, 461, 476, 481,
513. 536, 642.

' 774 513, 536,542.

*I»W, 405, 4.7, 4», ^l^jg^^SZ:

3lay, 312-315, 383, 980. (S-

* pentance and Exhortations.)
jpondence, 121, 271, 405,461,

.599, 600, 601, 806,624,628,648.
epravity, 241, 244, 251, 258, 265,
266, 267.
•lection, 116, 237, 490, 732.
jicouragements, 309, 535, 565, 569,
572, 597, 590, 602, 010, Oil, 012,
614',62l', 624, 62T, 630, W.
Iternity, 155, 308, 869, 878, 881, 886.
toning hymns, 50, 53, 54, 50, 58,

59, 61-60 69, 71, 73-76.
<Ixcellence of Christ, 4S7, 500, 501,

504.
Exhortations, —

to activity, etc., 573, 616, 617,
623-626.

108,
, MB,

Gentleness, 653, 669, 070.

of God's commands, &&•
Gethsemane, 180, 182, 729.

God,—

adoration of, 100-104. 10,,
Hi; US, 123, 12T, 131,
136-142, 151, 201, 3S7, 388, 391,

425, I
compassions of, 108, 122, 128-130.
condescension of, 109, 132, 204,

420.

Creator, 125, 137.

eternal and self-existent, 19, 103,

155, 809.
goodness, 107, 124, 143, 408, 429,

437, 441, 400, 595, 001.
grace and mercy, 107, 118, 142,

143, 151, 389, 397, 402, 407, 418,

656

Index of Subjects.

holiness and Justice, 117, 124,

', 106,
111. 123, 153.

. 420, 411. (Sec

I.

Westc I SCO, 8

861,

I glory, 19, too, ioi

| 864,«

omnipotence, 101,1X1.115/138. L» f*^
omnipresence, 110, 121, l<i>, 444 ™ ' £

rnn ]I,~h 1>r"

Holiness, :A3, 403, 531, 5C7, C28, 6

omniscience, no, 120, ir>2.
providence. (Sec Providence.)
sovereignty, i02, 105, 109-111,
iig, i;;i.
Gotl,—

spirituality, 117.

Wisdom, 105, 114, 11C, 143, 153,

396, 412, 426,437,403,501.
works of nature and grace, 21
IOC, 125, 132, 135, 242, 431.
Gt.sj.el. (See Holy Scriptures.)
Grace,—

growth in, 224, 231, 449, 458, 531,

532, 555, 673, 774.
salvation by, 178-180, 241, 251-
25.1, 260, 261, 269, 273, 344, 35G,
473, 899.
Grieving the Spirit£283, 315, 330, 342,
382, 530

Holy Ghost, —
adoratioi
Comfort- 233, 7

divine, 147
fruits and gifts of. .
1 707.

office of, 222, 22 I
prayers for, 1::

! 228-23G, 4 10.

Strivings of, 2S >3, 3

ai9.

Holy Scriptures. 82-100.

Hope, 451, 491, 524, 558, 601, C10, $'.

m.

Humility, 455, 4C9, 530, 5C7, K

741.
Imitation of Christ, 172, 180, 53

GG5-6C9.

Guulmu-,. :;„ 221, 411, 522, 526, 628, I^J^ 1TI, 201. MC, ,M.

„ . ■•■ Immortality, 688, 84

Heart. — , _ "

, , , . °1 Christ. : :, GOO.

broke* and contrite, 304, 301, ofSplrtt/s ,234.'

' Ingratitude, 351

Change ,„, 3H 0.7, 009, 301, 370, ln8tallation. (Soe Millistr,..,

h» I | . ,,;. ,,:,. W,"S?" °f ChriSt' 1SG' 2G3' "J

BunuM.l,,- ;, 340, 370, toTltoaon, of the ^ , « J

583, 634, 684, 701.
Heaven, —

aspiration for, 540. 5C4, 604, G15]

. B61, 894, 8<jb, Jews. 788,
4H)2, 003, 912, 914,

302-310, 31
23, 32G-328, 331, 340, ,
584, 971.

Index of Subjects.

657

I

'in Christ, 373, 471, 495, 527, 536,

' 542,543,588,597,600. -.

[in God, 393, 401, 417, 422, 428,

484, 613, 620, 740.
Iln hope of glory, 369, 494, 611,
[ 614,615,740. v^.

(in pardoned sin, 338, 351. '^
fcgment, 126, 214, 220, 854, 867,
f SGS, 870, 871, 872, 876, 877, 879,

882, 883, 884.
Itincation by faith, 256, 273, 339,
!| 340, 379, 512, 516, 874.
j dness, 663, 6G5, 666, 667.
Igdoni of Christ, 173, 484, 720, 740,
775, 786, 787, 798, 799, 801-803,
I 812, 823.
I nb of God, 254, 264, 274, 362, 546,

549, 731, 751, 994.
|v of God, 92, 243, 257, 494. (See
Holy Scriptures.)

L

; brevity of, 825, 826, 842, 850, 856,

858, 859, 913, 915, 926.
j object of, 531, 551, 851, 881.
uncertainty of, 826, 850, 851, 858,

924.
keness to Christ, 44, 172, 458, 531,

567, 667-669. (See Imitation.)
jjtany, 374.
,ng suffering of God, 283, 344, 356,

363.
loking to Jesus, 447, 450, 476, 527,

546, 550, 551, 580-582, 597,

600.
>rd's day, 1, 2, 9, 20, 24, 25, 27, 35-

37, 42, 47, 48, 60, Q6.
)rd's house. (See Sanctuary.)
Drd's Prayer, 676.
Drd's Supper, 724, 726, 727, 729, 730-

736, 739, 741, 743, 748-752, 756,

758.
ove, —

a grace, 530, 650, 654, 664, 669,

707.
of Christ, 267, 280, 316, 486, 503,

511, 513, 516, 519, 530, 532, 577,

600, 668.

Love, —

of God, 118, 143, 151, 198, 204,

28T, 420, 473, 737.
to the brethren, 671-673.
to Christ, 479, 488, 496, 509, 520,

543, 544, 546.
to the church, 719, 720.
to God, 404, 428, 445, 497.
Marriage, 962.

Meekness, 172, 525, 642, 667, 669.
Mercy and grace of God, 144, 146,
151, 204, 242, 263, 287, 293, 299,
328, 381, 402, 404, 407, 425, 429,
473.

Mercy-seat, 679, 685, 687, 694.
Ministry, 754, 768, 769, 771, 779-783,

855.
Miracles, 174.
Missions, 775, 778, 784-806, 809, 811,

815-823.
Morning hymns, 11, 13, 17, 27, 33, 35,

44, 46, 47, 65.
Nation. (See Our Country.)
Nature, 21, 112, 431.
Nearing home, 840, 844, 853.
New Year, 916, 918, 922, 923, 925, 926.
Old age, 435, 470, 599, 839.
Omnipotence, Omnipresence, etc

(See God.)
Opening of worship, 1-4, 9, 10, 20-

30, 35, 37, 39-46, 79.
Ordination. (See Ministry.)
Our country, 932-940, $44-949, 051,

952.
Pardon. (See Forgiveness. )
Parting hymns, 52, 55-57, 68, 72-81,

659, 702.
Patience,—

a grace, 595, 596.
of God, 344, 356, 359, 537.
Peace, 229, 230, 467, 572, 583, 653.

of conscience. (See Conscience.)
Perseverance, 492, 568, 599, 602, 605,

610, 616, 623, 624, 626.
Pilgrim-fathers, 935, 947, 949.
Pilgrimage, 604-606, 609, 611, 621.

630, 649, 721, 914.
.Prayer, 62, 63, 675-707.

658

Index of Subjects.

. —
.-ill l

antir.ino-. 223, n~.

•. 9, 14, US,

B the ehureh, 710, 711,
0 and thankful heart, 585,

childlike q 530, C32, C35.

Prajorn f>r var I, —

children,

Christ's intercession.

Christ's remembrance, 447, 47G,

711.
Christian unity, etc., G57. <
cleansing grace, 229, 330.

7 "7.
country, 938-942, 944, 94G, 951.
delivering grace, 257, 532, 561,

587.
evening blessing, 69, 71, 73-77.
extension of Christ's kingdom,

74G, 775-777. 7K5, 790, 792, 793,

707, S02. 806-810.
fruit fulness #f the word, 49, 70,

97. 119. 76*.
forgiveness and acceptance, 335.
;. 319, 866, 861, 81 .

370, 372, 381, 462, 518
gilts of the Spirit, 224, 2_

229, 231.
grace in the hour of death, 73,

517. I >. B42, 847, I

guidance, 411. ;

529. 53f, 515, 553. 564, 806.
help in trouble, 5G3, 5b0, G74, G78,

717.
help In sorrow. 517. M

Holy Spirit, 221, 22S, 230, 231,

251.
incnasc of faith. 423.
. indwelling of Christ, 222, 489,

i

lling of the Holy Gh

•tion, J
liken

1, 7G8,

7-1.

'.711.

spiritual quickening, 221,
406, 458, 477. 711.

Fid-mission, 440.

844, I

lining grace, 585,

500.
Preciousness of Chris!

48G, 495, 49G, 503, 510, 516,

520, 759. 710.
Pressing onward, 002, 009, C12,

628-62 >. 019.

Probation. j '.315,

Procrastination. (See Delay.]
n of religion, 734, 742,

757.
Promises, 409, 442, 499, 534, 5390

599.
Prophet. Priest, and Kin?. 109. .1
Provi , 407,1

delight In, 14, 421, 429, 4G9, J

601.
deliv. 888, 40G, GC7 |

trust in, I I

400,411. !

wisdom of. 288, 412. 122, 4G9.J
Parity, 567, 647,

Punishment (See Future Puil
ni'-nt.)

caption. (See Atonement, m
390, 471, 550, I
599, 602, G74, 8G9.

Index of Subjects.

659

neration, —

4od's work, 234, 252, 258. 259.

lecessity of, 241, 244, 247, 251,
252, 258, 359, 380.

>rayers for, 244, 245, 258, 357,
359.

nidation, —

)f self, 339, 3G8, 438, 503, 541.

>f the world, 389, 414, 452, 454,
825, 832.

mtance, 214, 254, 257, 332-337
342-347, 350, 354, 356, 361-3G4
370, 372, 377, 381, 385, 436, 438,
462, 518, 553, 554, 576, 687, 695

gnation. (See Submission.)

In Christ, 249, 343, 376, 424, 540,

541, 544, 576, 597, 643, 679.
In God, 154, 304, 308, 425, 426,

437, 508, 595, 678, 705.
in heaven. (See Heaven.)
direction, 740, 832-835, 841, 848,

852, 854, 856, 873-875.
ircment, 464, 465, 588, 682, 686, 698.
ivals, 367, 449, 459, 491, 554, 804.
hteousnes-s, —

Lord our, 273, 340, 379, 504, 512.
of faith, 339, 340, 379.
robe of, 340, 379.
;k of Ages, 689.
>bath. (See Lord's Day.)
jraments. (See Baptism and

Lord's Supper.)
vation by Christ, 158, 179, 201,
243, 247, 249, 250, 251, 254, 260,
274, 362, 376, 507, 512, 516, 521,
526,536, 542,547,899, 901.
actincation, 224, 523, 526, 531-533,

546, 549, 552, 571, 604, 673.
actuary, 2-4, 9, 10, 15, 22, 23, 28-

31, 34, 40, 43, 46, 67,
amen, 934, 943.
asons, 917-924.

•cret prayer, 464, 465, 680, 682.
J*f-denial, 245, 629, 641. (See Con-
secration. )
, ilf-examination, 117, 119, 120, 152,
1 436,479.

Shepherd, —

Christ a, 522, 523, 526, 529.
God a, 134, 396, 601, 610.
Sickness, 593.
Sin. (See, also, Depravity.)

conviction of, 244, 247, 251, 256,

257, 380.
man's condition in, 241, 244, 251,

256, 258.
punishment of, 108, 246, 334, 336,
631.
Simplicity, 525, 632, 635.
Social worship, 652, 690, 697, 698.
Sovereignty of God, —

in government, 105, 109, 110, 398.
in providence, 153, 422, 482, 595,

596.
in redemption, 116, 259, 482.
Steadfastness, 602, 617. ,

Submission, 441), 531, 590-595, 646.
Sufficiency of Christ, 264, 266, 474
512, 519, 523, 535, 543, 544, 546.
Sun of righteousness, 489, 698.
Surrender of self, 317, 322, 333, 353,

370, 438, 476, 507, 554.
Sympathy, —

of Christ, 439, 514, 515, 517, 538,

580.
of Christians, 661, 666-669.
Temperance, 950.
Thanksgiving, 920-927.
Throne of grace. (See Mercy-seat.)
Time. (See Life.)
Trials, 430, 460, 537, 562, 563, 579, 587,

594-597.
Trinity, 1, 216, 237, 239, 375.
Trust, —

in Christ, 241, 250, 341, 362, 364,
376, 423, 442, 470, 474, 516, 536,
546, 547, 549, 550, 552, 557, 590,
591, 602, 745, 747, 840.
in God, 166, 348, 390, 393, 394,
427, 439-441, 595, 597, 643, 674,
704, 706.
Union, —

among Christians, 657, 660, 661,

671.
with Christ, 492,

06o Index of Subjects.

with !t life, 835.

Wafting ob God, 127, Worshi]

delight in. 1-1. 10, 2.1, 30-31 <
Watchfulness, GCC, .r,71, 574.

Wi. Wrath ol

Way, Truth, and Lift, MS, 474 jtUng Wiih God, 01*.'

Way of salvation. (See Salvation by Ziuii, (."Sec Church.)

Christ.)

INDEX OF TEXTS.

GENESIS.

25: 22 .

685

1: 2 .

797

33: 14 .

444

5: 24 .

. 444,

449, 458

33: 22 ...

552

6: 3 .

. 285

34: 6

408

8: 9 .

. 304

17: 7 .

. 765

LEVITICUS.

17: 19 .

. 765

25: 8, 13 .

274

19: 7 .

. 328

24: 31 .

. 757

NUMBERS.

24: 63

,

464

10: 29

757

26: 24 .

. 599

23: 10 . .

841

28: 10-22 .

.

411, 555

24: 17

472

28: 16 .

. 34

28: 17

#

7

DEUTERONOMY.

32: 24 .

. 513

11: 19 . . .956

,957

45: 5, 7 .

.

• 153 12: 9 • • -

308

EXO

DUS.

26: 17,18 . . 734

,755

31: 6

409

15: 2 .

.

• 24 32: 3 ... .

101

15: 11 .

.

•48234:1 . . .

900

15: 17 .

.

• 791 34: 1 . . . .

630

15: 18 .

#

.111

16: 23 .

.

12, 17 l JOSHUA.

19: 18 .

.

365

1:5. . . .

977

662

Index of Texts.

4:21,22

957

5:9 . . . . 508

10: 12, 13.

138

7: 16 . . . .860
7: 18 . . . 132

JUDGES.

9: 1-10 . . .256

8: 4 .

602

11: 7 . . . 106
13: 15 . . . 153,674

RUTH.
1 : 16, 17 .

742

19: 25,26 . 186,442,852
23: 3 . . . 446
29 : 2 . .449, 459, 554

1st SAMUEL.
1 : 22, 28 .

2:6-9. . . 109
3: 18 \ . 105
7: 12 .

763
,392
,590

507

33 : 13 . 105, 114, 116
33: 15 . . . .63
38:7. . . 193,797
38: 11 . . . . 138

PSALMS.

1 : J2, 13 .

677

1 .... 631

2d SAMUEL.

2:6. . . .484
3 .... 65

12: 23

848

4 63

22: 9-12

140

4: 4 . . . . 436

22: 47

100

5 11

5:3. . . . 44

1st KINGS.

6: 1, 2 . . . .366

8: 39 . .
18: 44 .

120
804

7 .... 126

8 . • . . .132
8 : 3, 4 . . 137, 420

1st CHRONICLES

4: 10 .

16: 12 .

29: 11-13 . . 19

78
151
136

10: 14 . ... 108
11 ... . 674
11: 4 . . . 119,120

15: 628 . . . 633
16: 11 . . . 444,853

2d CHRONICLES.

17 . . . . 832
17: 8 ... .71
17 : 15 . . . 540
18: 35 . . . 537
19 . . 82, 88, 125, 571
19: 8-11 .... 96

1: 10, 11 . .
6:2 . . ■ .
6:41. . 773,782
14: 11 .

646
716

779
450

NEHEMIAH.

20 . . . . 378
22 ... 177,450

9: 5 .

13: 19 . . 9, 17, T

13: 14-24 .

24
',42
447

23 . 134,396,529,558,601

24 ... 188,195

25 . . . . 561
26: 8 . . 3,7, 16,31

ESTHER.

27 348,714

4: 16 . . 291,

JOB.
1:21 . . . .

687
706

27 : 4, 5 . 3, 7, 16, 31
27: 9 ... 470

27: 14 . . . . 398
30 398, 453

Index of Texts.

663

31

•

• . 388,557

66: 18 ,

• • 675

31:

3

537

67: 3,5 .

. 24,103

31:

5 .

. 874

68 .

101

31:

19

402

68 : 19, 123, 129, 130, 402, 928

21:

24 .

. 398

G9

. 335

32

358

70 .

450

33:

5 .

. 408

71

. 435,481

31

288, 429

71 : 15, 16

340, 379

34-

22 .

495

72

. 786, 823

25:

18

. 67

73

246, 405, 497

3d

.

124

73: 25 .

. 145, 417

37:

5 .

. 442

74: 16

135

37:

28 .

429

77: 11-14 .

. 137

38

.

. 462

78 .

957

39

.

825

79

13, 134, 396

39:

12

. 556

80 .

710

40

•

2C2

80: 14-16 .

. 221

41

.

. 667

84 . 10, 15,

1G, 30, 31,

42

.

451, 491, 524

84: 11

150, 386, 429

42:

1 .

. 454,458

85: 6. .

221, 354, 711

44

.

947

87 .

723

44:

21 .

. 117, 119, 120

88 . .

. 282

45

.

173, 494

89 .

. 94, 136

40

. 122, 386, 603

89: 18 .

. 198, 386

4G:

5

. 720, 723

90 .

155, 869

4G:

9

942

91 . . .

166, 392, 508

40:

10

. 105

92

. 2, 23

48

.

. 26, 51

92: 12-14

. 628, 633

50:

15 .

. 326

93

115, 238

51

. 244,

334, 336, 347, 554

94: 12 .

. 453

51:

10 258

, 359, 370, 455, G47

95 .

131

52:

7.

24G

90: 4 .

. 101, 238

5a :

6 .

. 74G

96: 13 .

. 873, 877, 882

54:

G

685, 680

97

110, 111, 214

65

. 302, 399, 575

98 .

. 163

55:

22

575

100 .

107, 127

50:

3 .

. 394,39^

100: 4 .

. 8, 51, 720

57

100

101: 2

399

57:

1 .

. 608, sor.

102

. 710

GO

930

103 . 12S

, 129, 130, 151

GO:

4 .

. 610

103: 15

. 826

Gl

ffl

103: 16 .

831

Gl:

5 .

. . 734, Top

103 : 17, 18 .

. 738

G2

, ,

. 42T

104 .

. , 21

63

,

. 13, 445, 827

104: 13-15 .

135, 921, 922

65

,

. 29, 675, 920

107: 43 . 118

, 392, 402, 493

6G:

8,9

. . . 426

108 •

123, 419

664

109: 3,4
110: 3
113: 5
114 .
116
117 .
118
119 .
119: 51
119: 105

121 .

122 .
125

126 .

127 .

128 . .
131

133 . ,
134
136 .
137

138 .

139 .
141 .
143: 2 .
144: 12
145

146 .

147 .

148 .
149: 1 .

Index of Texts.

. 669 2: 16 .
259,359 5:10-15
. 109,

948;

404, 419, 425 1 : 2 .
. . 103l:H •

. 8, 12.257: I4
91, 92, 95, 99 '9: 6> 7 •

. . 439 j 21 : 11
. . 96 25: 4 .

154, 166, 387 126 : 3
. 18, 20 1 28 : i6 •
. 413. 814 29: I9

495

487

ISAIAH.

406, 565, 569
. 824, 827
956
. 479,632
660, 707
. 107, 131
144, 435
. 564, 720
389, 621
119, 120, 121, 152
651
. 256
. 955, 960
. 123, 407
. 89, 108, 386
. 921
141
. 193

PROVERBS.
1: 24,32 ... 282
3: 6 . . . . 591
4: 18 . . . 555,986
8: 17 . . . .295
18: 24 . . . . 3i6
23:26 . . 317,370

ECCLESIASTES.
9: 10 . . . 282, 621

11: 1,2
11: 6 .
12: 1.
12: 7 .

665
573
292
830

CANTICLES.

2: 4

32: 2
33: 17 ,
35: 8-10
40: 9
40: 11 .
40: 28
43: 1,2,
45: 7 .
49: 15 .
50: 10
51: 12,13
52: 1, 2
52: 7
53

53: 4-6 .
54: 8 .
55:1,2 ,
55: 6 .
55: 7,8
56: 7 .
57: 15
57: 21 .
58 : 6, 7 ,
58: 13,14
59: 1, 2 .
60: 2 .
60: 18
61: 10
64: 6 .
66: 8

359
. 117, 629
438, 520
. 165, 167, 169
800
. 166, 392, 550
. 392, 413
25, 496, 772
. 403, 602
... 552
630
. 611, 627
. 813
. 526
624
. 281, 599
65
. 737
394, 398, 559
. 453,582
. 712 799
769
. 255, 273
183, 311
. 502
293
. 282.286,315
282, 297, 312
. 697
. 109, 334
. 246,257
628, 683
2,3,27, 30,42
459, 462
776
. 534
340
. 858
822

JEREMIAH.

1: 5 .
1: 29
2: 13
724 3; 22

767

. 333

244, 344, 459

. 344,350

Index of Texts.

665

8: 20 .

8: 22
10: 10
10: 23
12: 5 .
13: 16
14: 7,8
17 : 7, 8
22: 10
23: 6 .
29: 13
31: 3 .

302, 383 |4: 1-7
247 6: 6-8
155

1: 15

. 153, 426

. 383

856

43, 350, 456

3, 108, 413

844, 859 3: 2

344 3: 4

. 791
628, 633, 666, 66T

NAHUM.

769, 815

HABAKKUK.
14 . . . 812, 823
. 462
104

291,331,£6 3:17-19 . 324,400,550

732

LAMENTATIONS.
1:4 . . • • ™

3: 23
3: 24
3: 26
3: 33

ZECHARIAH.

. 65

. .445

348, 525, 583, 674

466

1: 5 .

4: 6

9: 9 .

9: 12
13: 1
13: 6
14: 8
14: 9

2: 6,7 .
3: 18-27
18: 31
22: 14 .
33: if

XZEKIEL.

. 784
618,782, 784 jl
. 286,312,381 3: 2
. 314, 383J3: 7
286, 312 3 : 10
3: 18
DANIEL. U: 2

2:44 • • - 718

7:13,14 • ■ ™>m

842

. 725

20T

.241

264, 328

. 342, 363

"... 778

. 655,715,786,803

MALACHI.

786,823

. 868, 880

297,344

. 652

. . 246

. 816

9: 3-19
9:7

5: 15 .
6: 1
10: 12
14: 1

2: 12
2: 13
2: 17

4: 12

2: 10

946
342

HOSEA.

. 440, 453, 594

JOEL.

MATTHEW.

i- a ... 49G

2*2 . • 164> 80°

2: 9 . • - ' 4T2

2:10 ... ^

4: 19 . • • ' 3^

344 4. 22 . • • 545

436 5. 3 . • • ' ~iU

350 5:5. . - ■ 642
t. r 428, 445, 451

I' ft " . . 567

. 629

440, 770, 775

676

AMOS.
MICAH.

344 5. 44.16

- 1" 6- 10 •
711,946 6. 40-13

6: 19-21

314, 870 6: 25-34

644,838

16: 33

7: 7

470

. 432

694, 701

666

Index of Texts.

7:

8:

9:

9:

10:

10:

11:

11:

12:
12:
13:
15:
10:
16:
17:
18:
18:
19:
20:
21:
22:
24:
24:
24:
25:
25:
25:
25:
25:
26:
26:
26:
26:
26:
26:
27:
27:
28:
28:

13,14
24-26
24 .

38
24

25 .
19

28 .

19 .

48-50
8 .

25 .
24

26 .
: 8
: 1-5

20

14 .
28

22 .
4.

279,

27 .

30

44 .

6 .

13 .

34

40 .

46

29 .

36-42

41

42 .

64

75 .

36 .

45

6 180,191

20 .

245, 628, 633

587

. 423

768

477

477, 539, C37

3*6, 362

284, 309, 310

371, 584, 688

. 660

310

• 49. 97

. 450

245, 477

246, 286, 399
373, 486
525, 635

695

761, 763

211

684, 694

293

. 884

879

867, 868

740, 821

618, 870

882 ,
672, 868 |
880
. 752 J
179, 180, 206 J
619 !
440, 591, 704 j
. 876 !
361
. 536
353
, 192, 197, 202
535, 616

38 .
24
14,15

28-30
32
8-10
33-37
7-9
24

26 .
32-42 .

46 .

15-20

. 477,499,543
423

. 464, 469, 525

635, 736, 765

. 368, 369, 832

176

. 213

574, 619

605

758

. 6oa

179, 182, 440, 591

180, 547

. 830

12, 191, 192, 197

- . 784

^-XUKE.

17 .
35

37-41
46 .
37
34 .

MARK.

333, 362

316

. 587,598,943

14,158,464

412

477, 626, 637

1: 46 .

108

1: 47 . .

. 520

1 : 78 .

533, 805

2: 8-14 . 157

159, 160, 161,

164, 165,

167, 169, 171,

272, 278

4: 18 . .

161, 174, 662
. . 244

5: 8 .

5: 11

545

5: 31-32

. 333, 362

6: 21

453

6: 36 .

. 668

6: 38

666, 667

7: 34 .

. 316

8: 5-15

49

8: 23-25

. 943

9: 23

368, 369, 637

9: 46-48

. 525,635

9: 57

634

10: 29-37 .

• 668

10: 39

588

10: 42 .

286, 505, 634

11 : 2-4 .

676

12: 22-31

. 470

12: 32

610

12: 35-38

618, 619, 870

14: 17

299

14: 22

293, 294, 296

14: 26-33 .

245, 389, 832

15: 7 . .

. . 351

Index of Texts.

667

15: 11-32

. 281, 297, 333, 344

9: 4

. 622

363, 518

9: 5 .

489, 533

15: 17-21

290, 345

10 .

. 955

18: 1 .

. 693

10: 11

255

18: 13

332, 333, 336

10: 14 .

. 497

18: 16 .

763

10- 11-16

. 134, 396, 522

19: 10

161, 267

526, 529, 537, 558

19: 41 .

. 485

11: 23

866

21: 1-5

665

11: 25 .

. 329

21: 36 .

. 460, 619, 682

12: 12-15

213

22: 19

730, 731

12: 21 .

. 586

23: 33 .

. 3C5

12: 32

185, 299

22: 42

178, 179, 440, 591

12: 35.36

. 489

646

13: 1

671

22: 43

1S2

13: 7

562

22: 02 .

. 485

13: 9 .

. 343

23: 34

361

14: 2 .

195, 909

23: 42

447, 476

14: 3 .

. 195, 540

24: 1-7

35, 191, 202

14: 6 .

268, 543

24: 5

205

14: 18 .

. 600

24: 26 .

. 190

14: 19

442

24: 29

. C4, 77

14: 27 .

. 572,583

24: 32 .

98, 652

15: 2

594

24: 34

202

15: 4 .

. 570

24: 50 .

. 78

15: 5.

324, 492

24: 53

. 30

15: 7 .

. 684,694

15: 9

316

JOHN.

15: 16 .

. 259, 273

1: 9 .

851

If: 7

222

1: 12 .

. 397, 442. 490

16: 8-13 .

221, 224, 225, 234

1: 13 .

.

16: 16 .

. C04

1: 14 .

. l:

17: 9

703

1: 29 .

254, 204, 274. 362

17: 16 .

. 556,644

546,549, T31, 751

17: 17-19

83, 88, 91

3: 3 .

20

17: 21,22

. 654, 655, 715

3: 14,15

. 311, 546

17:23,24

492, 540, 887

3: 17 .

204, 287

19 .

180, 547

4: 16 .

.

19: 25 .

. 539

4: 21 .

. . 82,45 19: * *

180, 184, 210, 536

4: 24 .

. 117

20: 1-18

192, 197

5: 39

82, 83, 88, 95

20: 19.7,

22, 28, 45, 64, 652

6: 37 .

. 328, 333

20: 21

572

6: 39 .

409, 599

20: 24-29

. 28, 423, 732

6: 44 .

. 258, 259

21: 15-17

436, 479, 577

6: 68

. 377, 391, 463, 634

ACTS.

7: 37 .

. 323,543

1: 7 .

114, 116, 153

8: 12.

489, 533

1: 11 .

. . . 272

668

Index of Texts.

2: 16 .

. 746

7:9.

257, 554

2: 39

760!7; 24 .

. 335

2: 44-46

. 664 8: 8

252, 256, 258

4: 12

243, 250

8: 14

221, 223, 224, 397

4: 32 .

. 664

8: 15

415

5: 20

782, 784

8: 28 .

. 153, 410

5: 41 .

. 477, 542, 637

8: 31-37

368, 369

7: 38 .

. 721

8: 35-39

. 392, 495

7: 60

. . . 828

9: 5 .

173, 211

10: 33 .

. . 698

9: 15-18

. 114, 116

11: 23

324

10: 3

243, 259

.4: 17 .

. 408,921

10: 4 .

. 340,552

14: 25

315, 319

10: 5-10

333

15

. 746

10: 14 .

. 782,784

16: 9.

820

10: 15

709

16: 13 .

, 702

11: 33 .

. 114

16: 28

245

12: 4,5

655, 715

17 : 25, 26

. 124,133

12: 10 .

. 664

17: 28 .

121, 133, 152, 198

12: 12

494, 593

17: 31 .

. 868,877

12: 15 .

. 663,668

20: 28

618

13: 11, 12

. 394, 617. 630. 840

20: 35 .

. 665

13: 14

172, 310

21: 14

440, 591

14: 7, 8 .

. 395

,24: 16 .

. 403,443

15: 4 .

. 88, 93, 96

l\\ 25

305, 327

15: 8

765

26: 22 .

. 916

15: 30 .

. 714,779

ROMANS.

1G: 25-27

52, 220

1: 16

249, 341, 477

1st CORINTHIANS. -

499, 542

1: 8, 9

409, 599

1: 20 .

. 112, 132, 431

1: 10 .

. 660,064

1: 21

359

1: 22-24

. 271, 516

1 : 22-32

. 241,244

1: 30

. 251, 340

2: 1 .

670

2: 2 .

. 264, 277, 536

2: 4

. 35fl

2: 4 .

149

2: 7 .

622

3: 10-20

. 241,243,244

2: 9,10

. 886, 897

3: 21,22

242, 251, 254

2: 11-14

224, 234

3: 23 .

. 241,244

3: 6, 7 .

. 259, 271

3: 25

204, 263, 337

3: 16, 17

. 147, 532, 567

4: 5

. 254,340

3: 21-23

410, 557

4: 15

243, 257

6: 11 .

2G1, 269, 553, 732

5: 1

. 204,263,337

6: 19

532, 567

5: 3-5

433, 453

9: 24 .

. 624

5: 5

221, 222, 224, 225

9: 25-27

626

5: 8

. 270,480

10: 4 .

. 552

5: 10

516, 691

10: 31

. 395

5: 12 .

. 241,244

11: 26 .

. 727

Index of Texts.

669

11:28 . . • 43G

2

1G . . . 243,273

12: 27 . . • 402 2

20 187, 2G0, 330, 4S2, 546

13: 1-3 . . 050, 604 3

13 . . 254, 379, 552

13: 4 ... 670 3

28 . . . 656, CGI

13 : 12 . . . 457, 482

4

4, 5 . 156, 204, 287, 337

13: 13 . . 053, 054. 707

4

6 . . .397

14 : 20 . . • 525, 035

•r>

14 . . . 650, 054

1 - . 0 "^i0.

'■''

1 .... 070

15: 10 . 253, 209, 507,521

6

9 . . . 573, 022

15: 19. . . • 862

6

li . 181, 339, 414, 506

15: !9 . - . I*"

542,551

15 : 24, 25 . . 175, 200

0: 15 . . . . 259

15: 36

Id: 55-57 . . 190, 829

KPHESIAKS.

15: 58 . . 57

1:3-5 . 110, 204, 287

10: 2 . . . 003, 665

1:7 . . . 201,218

1G: 13. C12, 017,019, C_

1 : 10 . . 055, 786, 821

I: 11 . . . 114, 11G

2<1 COKINTIIIAXS.

1 : 19-23 . 175, 189, 200

1:2. . . . 44.".
1:5 .

2: 4-8 . . 251, 253, 269

2: 12-14 . 362,385. 019

3: 15 655

1: 11 . . . 71-

4: 4-8 .

1: 12 . . . . 443

32 . 315,312,

1:2).

r>: 14-16 . . . 313, 574

] : . J

.

2: 13, 16 .

6: 11-n . . or. 1 23

3

l . 700

4: 10 . . . .746

0: 18-20 ... 779

4: 14 .

5: 1 . . 1!

PIIILIPPIANS.

5:7.

. 416, 84 •

1:0. . 400, 470. 577

5: 10 .

1: 21 . 551, 606, [ 13, 904

5: 11 . . 187, 241

.

0:2.

1

6: 10 . . . 409, 410

. 156, 210. .M7

0: 18 . . . 387, 422

2: 9 .

7: 1 .

2: 10 . 173, -

8:9. . . . 183

777. 7-5

9: 6 . . &

2: 12

9: 15 . 1$

2: 13 .

• -

,-. - ~ '" --- 3:7-9 181, 339, 454, 4S8,

13: 14 . . . M _

3: 13, 14 . . 610, 625

GALAllANs. 4;4 Mmm9e2X>9m

1:4. . . 207. 272

4:7. . . o8,572

670

Index of Texts.

4: 8

. " .629

2:

8 . ~ . . . 45

4: 11

444

3:

16 . . . .156

4: 13 .

. 560

4:

16. . . 618,782

6:

12 . 623,624,626,734

# COLOSSIANS.

6:

17-19 . . 666,667

1: 14

181, 254, 264, 512

1: 15-17

. 211, 216

1:

8 . . 477,499,542

1: 18

753

1:

12 . . .470,499

1: 19 .

. 544

2 :

3 . . 616, 617, 619

1: 20

277, 994

2:

19 . . .413,599

1: 21 .

. 338, 356

2:

22 .... 91
15 .... 91

2: 9 .

265, 275, 520

3:

2: 10 .

. 275

3:

15-17 . 83, 88, 93, 96

3: 1-4

389, 403, 551

4:

8. . . 614,630

3: 12 .

. 666, 668, 744

4:

18 . 409, 413, 493

3: 14.

650, 654

3: 15

443, 467, 572, 583

TITUS.

3: 17.

395, 551

2:

6 .... 292

4: 2

619, 675, 677, 696

2:

10-13 ... 629

4: 3 .

714, 764, 779

2:

14 . . . .477

3:

5-7 . 273, 356, 743

1st THESSALONIANS.

4: 3

. 222,531

HEBREWS.

4: 14-18

828, 833, 873

876, 877, 879, 882

1:

3 158, 173, 175, 207, 493

4: 17

853

1:

6 . ... 212

5: 2 .

. 979

1:

8, 9 173, 189, 199, 211

5: 6 .

460, 619

2:

3 252,315

5: 8

. 616, 617

2:

6, 7 ... 132

5: 10

339

2:

9 . . . .208

5: 16 .

471, 484, 620, 740

2:

17 514

5: 17

683

2:

18 . . '. 514,517

5: 19 .

. 342

3:

13-15 . 305,315,327

5: 23,24

. 38, 409, 673

330, 383

5: 25 .

. 764, 779

4:

1 . . . 297,436

4:

7 . . . 282.327

2d THESSALONIANS.

4

9 5, 42, 864, 892, 893

4

14-16 128, 514, 517, 5S1

1: 7-10

214, 873, 876, 877

4

16 . . 685, 687, 694

879, 882

5

7 .... 514

3: 13

. 573, 616, 622

6

12 . . 645, 899, 901

6

18 . . . 442,599

1st

TIMOTHY.

6

19 398, 630

1: 15

. 267,333,363,376

6

20 . . . 195, 201

987

7

: 25 . 254, 264, 325, 376

1: 17

100, 103

7

26 475

2: 5,6 .

. 183,372,511

9

: 12-14 ... 254, 475

Index of Texts.

671

9: 24.

186, 325

.5: 4

779, 784

9: 27

852, 868, 872, 879

J5: 7

. 14,58,62,575,674

9: 28

. 376, 796

2d PETER.

10: 19-22

. 687, 694

1: 10

11

638, 639, 756, 901

416

11: 8

640

1: 19

. 489

11: 13 .

. 648

3: 3,4

399

11: 16

896

3: 7-12

. 877

11: 25 .

. 389,832

3: 10

. 873, 877, 879

12: 1 .

625, 899

3: 13 .

. 796

12: 2 .

. 311, 546, 597

1st JOHN.

12: 3 .

172, 539, 669

1: 7 .

254, 264

12:6-11

422, 441, 579, 640

2: 1

. 186,518

12: 18-25

. 655, 6."0

2: 2 .

294, 552, 994

13: 5

599

2: 6

. 172, 669

13: 8 .

. 5:;*

2: 8.

489, 533

13: 14

666, 838

2: 17 .

. 82.-,, 826

13: 20,21

38, 57, 4.'M

3: 1,2

. 397, 422, 490

3: 2 .

. 540, 832, 897

JAMES.

3: 14

. 490

1:5

99,236,646,684 3: 16 .

. 18.-,. 363

1: 6 .

. . . 423 3: 17

. 8K3, 868

1: 17 .

. 133, 408 4 : 7 .

.

1 : 27 .

666,667, 668 4: 8

. 118,143,441

2: 14-26

. 117, 629, 638 4:9.

204, 242, 2«7

4: 13,14

128, 826, 861, 888

4: 10

.242

915, 924

4: 16 .

118, 143, 441

5: 8 .

. . . 840 4: in

.530

5: 18 .

. . . 888 4: » •

. 884

5: 19-20

670 5: 4

495, 630

5: 10

. 222, 223

1st

TETER.

1:5.

409, 418, 470

JUDE.

1: 7

. 594

14, 15

Bi7, n

1: 8 .

483, 486, 504, 608

21, .

, . . 413

1: 19

243, 264, 386

24, 25

493

1 : 24 .

128, 825, 826

2: 6

. 25, 688

REVELATION.

2. 7 275

486, 487, 486, 504

1: 5-8

220, 876

510, 570

1: 18

. 186, 189

2: 9 .

201,21s

2:4.

449, 459

2. 24

183, 254, 255, 273,

3: 2,3

. 460, 619

376, 385, 547

3: 20

. 6,283,307

2: 25 .

255, 356, 526 \

4: 8-11

201, 209, 218, 6H6

3: 16

. 443 ,

5 201, 209, 215, 218, 240

3: 18

183, 254, 385, 994

5: 9 .

209 218,889

4: 17,18

314, 383, 868, 870

5: 12 .

. 240

880,

6; H-X7

• • . 876

672

Index of Texts.

7: 9-12 .

. 139,209,218

882

7: 11-17

. 899, 907, 908

21:

1-5 . 21,615,644,796,

11: 15

. 484, 786, 787, 801

843, 859, 862, 903, 906

14: 3 .

. 201, 218

21:

10 ... 902

14: 13

829, 864

21:

23 . . .885,887

15: 3,4.

. 203. 209

21:

27 . . 252,897

19: 3.

608

22:

3,4 . 885,887,910

19: 6 .

. Ill, 801

22:

17. 296, 303, 306, 323,

20: 6

873

331

20: 12-15

. 868, 877, 879, ,

22:

20 , 836, 876, 890

RD-17

. £ Deaeidified using the Bookkeeper process.
^ *«, <£> ur-, ^ Neutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide

Treatment Date: August 2005
^ * • , i • ^*

•- *> vs »?/£ PreservationTechnologies

r /h « ^ i^ ♦V?3 a world leader in paper preservation

v*1

1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive
Cranberry Township: PA 16066
{724)779-2111

4-v ►!«

.7SX&-. V* Wft- W .vSH

V«t

<*>* > -A' v"

r>

FLA- ^^ *^»* V*V ^